Vridha Pension Yojana Latest Update: If you are also the beneficiary of old age pension scheme or if a member in your house is taking advantage of this scheme, then there is great news for them. In fact, in Uttar Pradesh, he has been instructed to get verification from the government level recently to get old age pension. Now a plan has been made to get verification in the entire state. The concerned employees will go to the beneficiaries’ home and complete this process.
Verification of old age pension scheme will be sitting at home
Let us know that it will be started from the month of April. At the same time, it will be completed by May-June. In such a situation, the beneficiaries will not have to go round the department, public service center and cyber cafes in any way for verification. Only the concerned employees will go to the beneficiaries’ home and complete the verification process. Block level officials in rural areas will be given the responsibility.
Who will get the benefit of old age pension scheme?
Explain that the Social Welfare Department is running an old age pension scheme in UP. Under the scheme, at present, about 60 lakh elders of UP are being given pension of one thousand rupees every month. The government is working fast towards implementing this new system. Evidences like ration card, family card and Aadhaar card are already available with the government. On the basis of these, the eligible elders will be identified and given the benefit of pension. This process will not only increase transparency, but the elderly will not have to revolve around the government offices again and again.
Eligibility for old age pension scheme
According to Aadhaar card, age is 60 years or more.
The family does not have more than five acres of agricultural land.
No member in the house is in a government job.
The family does not have any four -wheelers.
Burglary in old age pension scheme
Actually, a few days ago it was revealed that, ITR filling is also taking advantage of old age pension scheme. This was disclosed by checking the ration cards running in the state and matching the government schemes of their beneficiaries. Initial investigation found that there are two to two and a half thousand such beneficiaries in the state who are also taking old age pension and filing ITRs. Many of them are paying income tax.
5 lakh beneficiaries were added
According to social welfare, 5 lakh and beneficiaries have been added to the budget of 2025- 26. The pension quarterly reaches the beneficiary bank accounts. According to the rules, in UP, the benefits of pension are given to the elders of those families below the poverty line, whose age is 60 years or more. Not only this, their annual income has also been determined in the pension standard. If the beneficiary of the scheme is from the urban area, then its maximum annual income should be Rs 56,460. The annual income regulations of the beneficiary of rural area have been fixed at Rs 46,080.
