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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt push for Rs. 1,000 monthly pension plan-Vivek Sinha

Govt push for Rs. 1,000 monthly pension plan-Vivek Sinha

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published Published on Jun 25, 2012   modified Modified on Jun 25, 2012

-The Hindustan Times

The labour ministry has proposed a minimum pension of Rs. 1,000 a month for all those who subscribe to the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS). If implemented, the move will benefit nearly 3 million workers engaged in small and medium enterprises with higher retirement benefits. Under the EPS 95 scheme, which has been in operation since 1995, a part of the employees’ provident fund contributions are set aside into a separate corpus which they can claim as pension after retirement, either as a lump sum or as a monthly payment.

The amended scheme, for which the labour ministry has moved a cabinet note, would imply that the Centre may have to subsidise the fund through a budgetary grant to raise the pension level for all those who, as per their contributions, are eligible for a much lower payout.

Alternatively, it may have to adopt a model of a rolling debt by which it pays new retirees by dipping into the pool of  high-income savers who have several years to reach the age of superannuation.

About 3.6 million individuals currently draw their pension from this scheme that has a corpus of Rs. 1.95 lakh crore. Of them, 83% or nearly 3 million draw a pension of less than Rs. 1,000.

More than a quarter (27%) or 972,000 of the eligible pensioners are engaged in seasonal manufacturing sectors such as bidi-making units, tea gardens, mining and quarrying activities with pension entitlements below Rs. 500 a month. In some cases, the pension entitlements are as low as Rs. 4 per month.

“EPS is a contributory fund, and low pensions mean that the monthly contributions by a member to the fund have been extremely low,” a labour ministry official told HT, explaining low-pension entitlements.
 
Dipping into the pool of high-income younger savers to subsidise current low-income retirees, however, carries the risk of creating a fragile financial structure. 

“If the proposal of a minimum Rs. 1,000 per month sails through, then their monthly pension will have to come from the amounts deposited by other employees,” the official said.

The Hindustan Times, 25 June, 2012, http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/BusinessBankingInsurance/Govt-push-for-Rs-1-000-monthly-pension-plan/Article1-878382.aspx


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