India Posts' Retired Officers' Association

44. Amount of Pension:-

Government servant retiring after completing 10 years of qualifying service is eligible for pension.

✓ Pension is calculated at the rate of 50% of emoluments or average emoluments whichever is more beneficial Min pension - Rs. 9000/- Max pension - Rs. 1,25,000/-

✓ Government servant retiring on invalidation under Rule 39 is also eligible for pension as above.

✓ Condition of min qualifying service is not applicable in the case of official retiring on invalidation.

✓ Government servant who has not become eligible for grant of pension shall be eligible for service gratuity.

✓ Amount of service gratuity shall be calculated at the rate of half month's emoluments for every completed six monthly period of qualifying service....

44. Amount of Pension.-

✓ Government servant compulsorily retired from service after completing 10 years of qualifying service is eligible for Compulsory Retirement pension under Rule 40.

✓ Amount of pension shall be portion or percentage of the Superannuation pension calculated under Rule 44 (1), as the Competent Authority may sanction under Rule

40.✓ Government servant compulsorily retired from service before completing 10 years of qualifying service is eligible for Service Gratuity pension under Rule 40.

✓ Amount of Service Gratuity shall be portion or percentage of the Superannuation Service Gratuity calculated under Rule 44 (2), as the Competent Authority may

sanction under Rule 40...

44. Amount of Pension.-

✓ Government servant removed/ dismissed from service after completing 10 years of qualifying service is eligible for Compassionate Allowance under Rule 41.

✓ Amount of Compassionate Allowance shall be portion or percentage of the Superannuation pension, as the Competent Authority may sanction under Rule 41.

✓ Government servant removed/ dismissed from service before completing 10 years of qualifying service is eligible for Compassionate Allowance under Rule 41.

✓ Amount of Compassionate Allowance shall be portion or percentage of the Service gratuity which would have been admissible to him if he had retired on superannuation service gratuity,, as the Competent Authority may sanction under Rule 41...

44. Amount of Pension.-

After completion of eighty years of age or above by a retired Government servant, in addition to a pension or a compassionate allowance admissible under this rule, additional pension or additional compassionate allowance shall be payable to the retired Government servant in the following manner, namely:-

S1 No	Age of Pensioner	Additional Pension / Additional Compassionate allowance
1	From 80 years to less than 85 years	20% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance
2	From 85 years to less than 90 years	30% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance
3	From 90 years to less than 95 years	40% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance
4	From 95 years to less than 100 years	50% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance
5	100 years or more	100% of basic pension/ compassionate allowance

 44. Amount of Pension.-

✓ 6. (b) The additional pension or additional compassionate allowance shall be payable from first day of the calendar month in which it falls due.

✓ Illustration: A pensioner born on 20th August, 1942 shall be eligible for additional pension at the rate of twenty percent of the basic pension with effect from 1st August, 2022. A pensioner born on 1st August, 1942 shall also be eligible for additional pension at the rate of twenty percent of the basic pension with effect from 1st August, 2022.

✓ (7) In calculating the length of qualifying service, fraction of a year equal to three months and above shall be treated as a completed six monthly period and reckoned as qualifying service.

✓ (8) In the case of a Government servant who has rendered a qualifying service of nine years and nine months or more but less than ten years, his qualifying service for the purpose of this rule shall be ten years and he shall be eligible for pension in accordance with sub-rule (1)...