New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided to allow “invalid pension” (disability pension) to armed forces personnel with less than 10 years of service, which was required earlier to qualify for the scheme.
The benefit would be available to those armed force personnel who were in service on or after January 4, 2019.
Invalid pension is granted to the armed forces personnel who is invalided out of service on account of disability which is accepted as “neither attributable to nor aggravated” (NANA) by the military service the person served.
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— ADG (M&C) DPR (@SpokespersonMoD) July 15, 2020
The decision has been taken after the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, gave approval.
Earlier, the minimum period of qualifying service actually rendered and required for invalid pension was 10 years or more, the defence ministry said in a statement.
For less than 10 years qualifying service, invalid gratuity was admissible.
By this decision, the armed forces personnel whose service is less than ten years and became/become invalided out of service on account of any bodily or mental infirmity which is “neither attributable to nor aggravated” by military service and which permanently incapacitated/incapacitates them from military service as well as civil re-employment, will be benefited and it will make them economically sound, the statement added.
