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The Finance Department recently found that 1,458 state government employees, including gazetted officers, were receiving social security pensions violating rules.
The Information Kerala Mission, which handles the Sevana software, ran tools to cross-match the same Aadhaar numbers seeded for salary payment and pension disbursal.
As the respective departments are tasked with acting against employees under them, the employees are likely to face only departmental action.
The Government has decided to make the staff levy the amount received as pension with interest.
The annual expenditure of the state government will increase by Rs 2000 crores
The National Pension System is a government-backed retirement savings scheme to provide post-retirement financial security.
If the state government does not intervene in the matter soon, the Board may be forced to increase the power tariff by at least Rs 4 per unit.
Although several differently-abled family pensioners have submitted memorandums raising concerns, the government is yet to act on it.
According to Balagopal, 26.62 lakh beneficiaries will receive the pension directly in their bank accounts.
Intervening in the suicide of a retired KSRTC employee in Kattakada, which is the fourth in the state so far, over the non-payment of pension dues, the court asked the government if it wasn't jolted by staff taking their own lives.
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