Disbursement of Anticipatory Pension Sindh Pensioners

Government of Sindh, Finance Department has issued Notification on 06-12-2019 in connection with Disbursement of Anticipatory Pension Sindh. Detail is as under:

In continuation of this department’s Memorandum of even number, dated 6^th February, 2017, thereby all the Principal Accounting Officers were requested that no pension case should be withheld for completion of documentation and NOCs etc. and that Anticipatory Pension may be sanctioned as mandated under section 29(4) of Sindh Civil Servant Act, 1973, In order to avoid interruption of transfer of pay to pension, it has been decided that Accountant General Sindh and District Accounts Officers are authorized to disburse anticipatory Pension @ 65% of basic pay as per last pay certificate drawn for a period of one years keeping in view the following points:-

Length of qualifying service available as per Accounts Officer’s record provided that the pension is for regular government employee and is on the payroll of the Accounts Office concerned and that there is no disciplinary action or inquiry against him reported by the department concerned. If the department concerned decides to forfeit or withhold the right to pension in respect of the department Officer that same may be informed to the Account Officer concerned before hand.
Anticipatory monthly pension shall be credited to the same bank account from where the employee was drawing his salary. The anticipatory pension shall be paid for a maximum period of one years following the retirement;
In case of death of a government employee, the widow, widower or dependents available on parent department’s record shall open a bank account for the purpose;
In case of a disciplinary action against the employee who is about to retire, the parent office concerned and, in case of deputation, the borrowing department shall immediately intimate the Accounts Officer concerned so that anticipatory monthly pension may be disallowed.
Special thanks to Mr. Zahid Khan for sending the copy of the Notification.
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