Family pension to a divorced and widowed daughter

Family pension to a divorced and widowed daughter is payable for life under Rule 50(9)(j) of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 to an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter of a deceased central government employee or pensioner, beyond the age of 25, until she gets married or re-married or starts earning her livelihood, whichever is the earliest. She draws it on her turn, which arrives after the children below 25 and any disabled child have died or ceased to be eligible, and she keeps it only while her income from sources other than the family pension stays below the minimum family pension of Rs. 9,000 a month plus dearness relief, which is Rs. 14,400 at the dearness relief of 60% in force from 1 January 2026.

Two dates decide most contested claims, and they are not the same date for the two categories. For a widowed daughter, the husband’s death must have occurred during the lifetime of the government servant or pensioner or the spouse. For a divorced daughter, the divorce must ordinarily have taken place during that lifetime, but the first proviso to Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) extends eligibility to a divorce finalised after the parent’s death where the divorce proceedings were filed in a competent court while the parent or the parent’s spouse was alive.

The amount holds no surprises: the ordinary rate of 30% of the pay the deceased last drew, minimum Rs. 9,000 and maximum Rs. 75,000 a month, plus dearness relief. What decides a daughter’s case is eligibility, timing and proof, not arithmetic. The provision exists for a daughter with no spouse and no adequate income of her own, and the rules test both limbs: the dependency on her parents while they lived, under Rule 50(9)(j)(iii), and her income at the time she draws and continues to draw, under Rule 50(9)(b).

This article sets out who qualifies, the turn on which she draws, the income limit and how it differs from the higher limit for a disabled child, the dependency condition, the timing of the widowhood and of the divorce, the second proviso that governs when payment starts, the cessation events, the annual certificate, the intimation of a divorce or widowhood to the Head of Office, the amount with the enhanced rate and the additional family pension after 80, the claim in Form 10 with income proof, the position where both parents were government servants, the tax treatment, two worked examples, a comparison with the neighbouring categories, and the development of the entitlement from 2001 to 2022. Every figure is tied to the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, notified as G.S.R. 868(E) on 20 December 2021, and to the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare instructions.

Who qualifies

Three categories of daughter qualify for the lifelong family pension under Rule 50(9)(j) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021: an unmarried daughter beyond 25, a widowed daughter, and a divorced daughter. The rule grants or continues the family pension to such a daughter beyond the age of twenty-five years for life, or until she gets married or re-married or until she starts earning her livelihood, whichever is the earliest. It opens only where the deceased is not survived by a son or daughter eligible under clause (d) or clause (h) of Rule 50(9), or where such a son or daughter has died or ceased to fulfil the eligibility conditions.

An adopted daughter, a step daughter and a daughter born after the retirement of the pensioner are all covered. Rule 50(9)(a)(ii) states the daughter’s conditions as unmarried or widowed or divorced and not earning her livelihood, and the definition of “child” in Rule 3(1)(e) takes in the son or daughter eligible to receive family pension under Rule 50. The Explanation at the end of Rule 50(9)(m) extends “son” and “daughter” to a posthumous son or daughter.

One asymmetry in the drafting is worth stating, because a reader who goes to the bare text will notice it. Rule 50(9)(a)(i) writes the age limit of twenty-five years into the son’s clause, while Rule 50(9)(a)(ii) states no age for a daughter. The age of 25 reaches a daughter through clauses (d) and (e), which pay the children below 25 in order of birth, and Rule 50(9)(j) is the clause that carries her past it for life.

The turn in the order of entitlement

A daughter’s turn arrives last among the children and ahead of the dependent parents. Rule 50(6) sets the order of the family in four categories: the widow or widower first, then the children, then the dependent parents, then the dependent siblings suffering from a mental or physical disability. Rule 50(7)(a) allows the family pension to no more than one member of the family at a time, save for the sharing exceptions written into Rule 50(8) and Rule 50(9), so the entitlement is a queue and not a division.

Inside the children, Rule 50(9)(j)(i) requires that the family pension is initially payable to the children in the order set out in clause (d) until the last child attains the age of twenty-five years. Rule 50(9)(j)(ii) then requires that there is no disabled child eligible to receive the family pension, so a disabled son or daughter drawing for life under Rule 50(9)(h) blocks an unmarried, widowed or divorced daughter for as long as that entitlement runs. The cross-reference in Rule 50(9)(j)(ii) is printed as “clause (e)” in the notified text, while the disabled-child provision is clause (h), and the same slip appears in Rule 50(9)(h)(iii).

Among the daughters themselves, the order is by birth. Rule 50(9)(j)(iv) pays first the daughter who fulfils the eligibility conditions, in the order of their birth, and Rule 50(9)(j)(v) entitles the elder daughter until she has married or remarried or started earning her livelihood, with the younger becoming eligible only after the elder next above her has married, remarried, started earning or died. Because the daughter sits in the children category, she comes ahead of the dependent parents, who are the next category under Rule 50(6)(iii).

The income limit

The ceiling is Rs. 14,400 a month at present, and reaching it disqualifies. Rule 50(9)(b) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 deems a son or daughter, other than one suffering from a mental or physical disability, to be earning his or her livelihood where the income from other sources is equal to or more than the minimum family pension under Rule 50(2) and the dearness relief admissible on it. The minimum family pension is Rs. 9,000 a month under Rule 50(2)(a)(i), and dearness relief is 60% from 1 January 2026, so the ceiling stands at Rs. 14,400 a month.

The test is equal to or more, not more than, so an income of exactly Rs. 14,400 a month ends the entitlement while Rs. 14,399 preserves it. The ceiling is not a fixed rupee figure either, because it moves with every revision of dearness relief: at 55% it was Rs. 13,950, and each future revision lifts it again. The family pension itself is excluded, since the rule speaks of income from other sources.

The limit for a daughter is far lower than the limit for a disabled child, and the two are routinely confused. Rule 50(9)(c) tests a child suffering from a mental or physical disability against the entitled family pension under Rule 50(2)(a)(i), which is 30% of the deceased’s last pay plus dearness relief, and treats that child as not earning a livelihood while the income stays below it. The Explanation following Rule 50(11) applies the same higher test to a dependent disabled sibling, so the Rs. 9,000-plus-dearness-relief ceiling described here is the ceiling for an able-bodied daughter and for the dependent parents, not for the disabled claimants.

The dependency condition

A daughter must have been dependent on her parents while they were alive, and this is a condition separate from the income test. Rule 50(9)(j)(iii) requires that the unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter was dependant on her parent or parents when he or she or they were alive. The clause looks backwards, at the relationship during the parents’ lifetime, and it is what stops the lifelong provision from reaching a daughter who was never supported by the deceased at all.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare read the two limbs together in Office Memorandum No. 1/13/09-P&PW(E) dated 11 September 2013, issued under the corresponding provision of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972. Paragraph 4 of that Office Memorandum states that a child who is not earning equal to or more than the sum of the minimum family pension and dearness relief on it is considered to be dependent on the parents, and that family pension to a widowed or divorced daughter is payable provided she fulfils all eligibility conditions at the time of the death or ineligibility of her parents and on the date her turn to receive the family pension comes.

That is the operative sequence: eligibility is tested twice, once at the point the parents drop out and again when the queue reaches her.

Timing of the widowhood

For a widowed daughter the rule is strict and admits no relaxation. Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) requires that in the case of a widowed daughter the death of her husband took place during the lifetime of the government servant or pensioner or his or her spouse. A daughter widowed while at least one parent was alive qualifies on her turn; a daughter widowed only after both parents have died does not qualify at all, whatever her income and whatever her circumstances.

The worked example in Office Memorandum No. 1/13/09-P&PW(E) dated 11 September 2013 shows the rule applied. A pensioner died in 1986, leaving a wife, a son and a younger daughter; the daughter married in 1990 and was widowed in 1996; the wife died in 2001; the disabled son drew the family pension until his death in 2003. The daughter was held eligible because she was a widow with no independent source of income both at the time of her mother’s death and on the date her turn came, and the family pension was to continue only until she remarried or started earning at or above the minimum family pension plus dearness relief.

The strictness here is the counterpoint to the treatment of the divorced daughter set out next, and the difference between the two rests on a single proviso.

Divorce finalised after the parent’s death

A divorced daughter is eligible even where the decree came after her parent died, provided the petition was filed while the parent or the parent’s spouse was alive. The first proviso to Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 makes the family pension payable to a divorced daughter from the date of divorce if the divorce proceedings were filed in a competent court during the lifetime of the government servant or pensioner or his or her spouse but the divorce took place after their death. The general condition in Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) is otherwise the same as for a widowed daughter: the divorce took place during that lifetime.

The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare circulated the provision to all ministries and departments, for strict implementation by the personnel handling pensionary benefits, by Office Memorandum No. 1/1(1)/2022-P&PW(E) dated 26 October 2022. The relaxation itself is in the notified rules and not in the Office Memorandum, so the date that matters for a claim is 20 December 2021, when the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 were notified as G.S.R. 868(E), and the Office Memorandum is the instruction that took the provision to the sanctioning offices.

Two consequences follow for the paperwork. The date of filing has to be provable, which makes the court’s receipt or the case record as important to the claim as the decree itself. And the family pension runs from the date of divorce rather than from the date of the parent’s death, so the arrears are computed from the decree even though eligibility was secured by the filing.

Where another member is already drawing

Eligibility and payment are two different questions for a divorced daughter, and the second proviso to Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) settles the second. It provides that where, on the death of the government servant or pensioner and the spouse, the family pension to any other eligible member of the family has become payable before the date of divorce of the daughter, the family pension to that divorced daughter shall not commence before the member of the family already drawing it ceases to be eligible or dies.

So the filing of the petition during the parent’s lifetime secures the entitlement, and the queue decides when the money starts. A divorced daughter whose brother below 25 was already drawing the family pension when her decree was passed becomes the recipient when he attains 25, not on the date of her divorce. The two provisos read together keep the divorced daughter inside the one-claimant-at-a-time scheme of Rule 50(7)(a) while protecting her from losing eligibility to the accident of a court’s timetable.

Cessation on marriage, remarriage or earning

Two clauses end a daughter’s family pension. Rule 50(9)(n) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 makes an unmarried son or an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter, except a disabled son or daughter, ineligible from the date he or she gets married or remarried. Rule 50(9)(o) stops the family pension payable to a son or a daughter if he or she starts earning a livelihood, which Rule 50(9)(b) measures as income from other sources reaching the minimum family pension of Rs. 9,000 a month plus dearness relief.

The exception is the disabled daughter. Rule 50(9)(i) provides that marriage by a child suffering from a disability referred to in Rule 50(9)(h) does not render that child ineligible for family pension, so a disabled daughter keeps the family pension through a marriage that would end an ordinary daughter’s entitlement outright. Her basis of entitlement is the disability and not the marital status, and her income is tested against the higher Rule 50(9)(c) ceiling.

Cessation is not the end of the family pension itself. Where an eligible daughter marries or starts earning, the family pension moves to the next member in the Rule 50(6) order, which is the next eligible daughter in order of birth under Rule 50(9)(j)(v), and failing any child, the dependent parents under Rule 50(10).

The annual certificate to the disbursing authority

A daughter drawing the family pension files a certificate every year, and the payment depends on it. Rule 50(9)(p) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 makes it the duty of the son or daughter, or of the guardian, to furnish a certificate to the Pension Disbursing Authority once in a year that he or she has not started earning his or her livelihood, and that he or she has not yet married or remarried. The certificate goes to the disbursing authority, ordinarily the paying bank, rather than to the Head of Office.

This annual certificate is separate from the life certificate that every pensioner and family pensioner furnishes to keep a payment running, described in the PPO and life certificate article. The two answer different questions, and a daughter drawing under Rule 50(9)(j) owes both. The parallel obligations elsewhere in the rule confirm the pattern: Rule 50(10)(c) puts the same yearly duty on dependent parents and Rule 50(11)(c) on a dependent disabled sibling.

Recording a divorce or widowhood with the Head of Office

The event that makes a daughter eligible is often recorded years after the government servant retired, and Rule 50(15) provides the route. Rule 50(15)(g) covers a change in the family after retirement that renders a member eligible for family pension, naming the divorce of a daughter and the death of the husband of a daughter among the events. The retired government servant, or where the government servant has already died, the spouse or any other member of the family in receipt of the family pension, may give an intimation to that effect with supporting documents to the Head of Office, and the Head of Office returns a copy of the intimation acknowledging its receipt.

Rule 50(15)(d)(ii) requires the Head of Office, on receipt of such a communication, to incorporate the change in Form 4 under signature, and to indicate the fact of a change of marital status of a family member in the Remarks column of Form 4. Rule 50(15)(h)(ii) requires Form 4 to carry the details of every son and daughter, whether or not eligible for family pension at the date of submission.

An omission from Form 4 does not defeat the claim. Rule 50(15)(i) provides that the claim of a member of the family of the deceased government servant shall not be rejected on the ground that the details of that member are not available in Form 4 or office records, where the Head of Office is otherwise satisfied about the eligibility of the member for grant of family pension under the rules. A daughter widowed or divorced long after her father retired is therefore not shut out by a stale form, though the intimation route in Rule 50(15)(g) is the cleaner course where the family can still use it.

The amount, the enhanced rate and the additional pension after 80

A daughter draws the ordinary rate in almost every case. Rule 50(2)(a)(i) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 fixes the family pension at a uniform rate of 30% of pay, subject to a minimum of Rs. 9,000 a month and a maximum of Rs. 75,000 a month, and dearness relief at 60% from 1 January 2026 is paid on top. Pay for this purpose is the emoluments under Rule 31 or the average emoluments under Rule 32, whichever is more.

The enhanced rate belongs to a window measured from the death, not from the daughter’s turn. Rule 50(2)(a)(ii) pays 50% of pay for ten years where the government servant dies in service, and Rule 50(2)(a)(iii) pays 50% for seven years, or until the date the deceased would have attained the age of sixty-seven, whichever is less, where the death is after retirement. Rule 50(2)(a)(iv) caps the enhanced rate at Rs. 1,25,000 a month against the same Rs. 9,000 floor. A daughter whose turn falls inside that window draws the enhanced family pension for its balance and steps down to 30% when it closes, under Rule 50(2)(b).

Age raises the amount later in life, and a lifelong family pension makes that real for a daughter. Rule 50(3)(a) adds 20% of the basic family pension from 80 years to less than 85, 30% from 85 to less than 90, 40% from 90 to less than 95, 50% from 95 to less than 100, and 100% at 100 years or more, and Rule 50(3)(b) makes the addition payable from the first day of the calendar month in which it falls due. Rule 50(4) requires the family pension and the additional family pension alike to be expressed in whole rupees, rounding a fraction to the next higher rupee.

Claiming: Form 10 and the income documents

The claim is made in Form 10 to the Head of Office, and the income proof is prescribed. Rule 50(12)(b)(i) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 requires a member of the family other than the widow or widower to submit, along with the claim for family pension, a copy of the last income tax return filed with the Income Tax Department. Rule 50(12)(b)(ii) accepts a certificate of income from a sub-divisional magistrate where that member informs that no return has been filed. Rule 50(12)(b)(iii) allows the Head of Office, where neither document can be produced, to rely on any other document produced in support of the claim regarding income and to decide eligibility accordingly.

Form 10 also carries a declaration about any other family pension. Rule 50(12)(c) requires a person claiming family pension to indicate against the specific column in Form 10 whether or not he or she is already in receipt of a family pension in respect of another government servant or pensioner, and if so its amount, and Rule 50(12)(d) requires the Head of Office to take that information into account so that the total stays inside the Rule 50(13) limits.

The category-specific documents follow from the eligibility conditions rather than from a separate list: the husband’s death certificate for a widowed daughter, and for a divorced daughter the decree together with the record of the date on which the proceedings were filed, which is what the first proviso to Rule 50(9)(j)(vi) turns on. A provisional pension can bridge a delay in settling the claim, as in any other family-pension case.

Two pensions where both parents were government servants

A daughter can draw two family pensions, and the first does not disqualify her from the second. Rule 50(12)(a) of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 provides that the family pension admissible on the death of a government servant or pensioner shall not be considered as income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a family pension on the death of another government servant or pensioner, subject to the combined amount staying inside the limits in Rule 50(13).

Those limits are stated in rupees. Rule 50(13)(i) caps two family pensions at Rs. 1,25,000 a month where the child is eligible to draw both at the enhanced rate under Rule 50(2)(a)(ii) or (iii), Rule 50(13)(ii) applies the same Rs. 1,25,000 cap where one has stepped down to the ordinary rate, and Rule 50(13)(iii) caps them at Rs. 75,000 a month where both are at the ordinary rate under Rule 50(2)(a)(i). Rule 50(14)(a) requires a child claiming family pension to state in Form 10 whether he or she is eligible for another family pension in respect of the other parent, and the amount.

The point matters to an unmarried, widowed or divorced daughter more than to most claimants, because her entitlement is lifelong and her income test is the tightest in the rule. The dual family pension article deals with the arithmetic of the two awards in full.

Tax treatment

The family pension a daughter draws is taxable as income from other sources, not as salary, because she never held the office. The salary standard deduction of Rs. 75,000 therefore does not apply to it. Section 93(1)(d) of the Income-tax Act, 2025, in force from 1 April 2026, allows instead a deduction of one-third of the family pension, subject to Rs. 25,000 where tax is computed under the new regime and Rs. 15,000 under the old regime, replacing Section 57(iia) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

Both the minimum family pension of Rs. 9,000 and the dearness relief paid on the family pension form part of the taxable amount. Substituting the salary standard deduction for the family-pension deduction is a common error and an expensive one, because it replaces Rs. 25,000 with Rs. 75,000 in the computation. The income tax for pensioners article sets out the position for a family pensioner alongside that of a retiree drawing her own pension.

Worked examples

Take a pensioner who retired on a last basic pay of Rs. 56,100, the entry cell of Level 10, and died in 2018, survived by a son then aged 20 and an unmarried daughter aged 34 with no income. The son drew the family pension until he attained 25 in 2023, under Rule 50(9)(d). The daughter’s turn opened then, under Rule 50(9)(j), because there was no disabled child. She draws 30% of Rs. 56,100, which is Rs. 16,830 a month, against a floor of Rs. 9,000, plus dearness relief of 60% from 1 January 2026, which is Rs. 10,098, for a total of Rs. 26,928 a month, and she keeps it for life unless she marries or her income from other sources reaches Rs. 14,400 a month.

Change the daughter’s income and the entitlement disappears. On the same facts, a daughter with rental income of Rs. 14,400 a month is deemed to be earning her livelihood under Rule 50(9)(b), because the test is income equal to or more than Rs. 9,000 plus dearness relief, and equality is enough. She is ineligible on her turn, and the family pension moves to the next eligible member in the Rule 50(6) order. The Rs. 26,928 she would have drawn is not counted against her in that test, since Rule 50(9)(b) looks only at income from other sources.

Comparison with the disabled child and the dependent parents

The three lifelong categories inside Rule 50 differ on the ceiling, the terminating event and the certificate, and the table sets them against each other on the position in force on 19 August 2026.

The pattern behind the table is that a disability moves a claimant to the higher ceiling and removes marriage as a terminating event, while marital status is exactly what an unmarried, widowed or divorced daughter’s entitlement rests on.

Development of the entitlement from 2001 to 2022

The lifelong entitlement is two decades old and was built by four instruments. Office Memorandum No. 45/51/97-P&PW(E) (Vol. II) dated 25 July 2001 first provided for a disabled divorced or widowed daughter to draw family pension for life on the conditions specified in it, including a requirement in its paragraph 2(ii) that she return to her parental home.

Office Memorandum No. 1/19/03-P&PW(E) dated 30 August 2004 removed the age restriction. It decided, in consultation with the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure and the Ministry of Law and Justice, Department of Legal Affairs, that there would be no age restriction in the case of a divorced or widowed daughter, who became eligible for family pension even after attaining 25 years of age subject to all the other conditions prescribed for a son or daughter, and it recorded that such a daughter, including a disabled divorced or widowed daughter, would not be required to come back to her parental home, modifying the 2001 Office Memorandum to that extent. Before that change, the governing income condition was the one in Office Memorandum No. 45/51/97-P&PW(E) dated 5 March 1998, under which a son or daughter was not to have an income exceeding Rs. 2,550 a month.

Office Memorandum No. 1/13/09-P&PW(E) dated 11 September 2013 settled the timing question, holding that a daughter must fulfil the eligibility conditions both at the time of the death or ineligibility of her parents and on the date her turn comes, and it noted that for old cases family pension may be granted with effect from 30 August 2004 where the death occurred earlier, following the clarification issued on 28 April 2011.

The CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, notified as G.S.R. 868(E) on 20 December 2021 in supersession of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972, carried the entitlement into Rule 50(9)(j) and added the proviso for a divorce finalised after the parent’s death. Office Memorandum No. 1/1(1)/2022-P&PW(E) dated 26 October 2022 circulated the recast provisions to all ministries and departments for strict implementation.

Across the pension schemes and the 8th Central Pay Commission

Rule 50(9)(j) is a provision of the defined-benefit family pension, so it applies in full to a family under the Old Pension Scheme and to the family-pension side of the Unified Pension Scheme. Under the National Pension System, the death benefit runs through the accumulated corpus and the annuity, and the CCS family pension reaches an NPS family only through the option in Rule 10 of the Central Civil Services (Implementation of National Pension System) Rules, 2021, so an NPS family should read the option exercised in Form 1 before assuming the lifelong daughter’s provision applies in the same form.

A pay revision changes the amount and not the entitlement. The 8th Central Pay Commission, constituted by Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A) dated 3 November 2025, will revise the pay on which the 30% family pension is computed, and any revision of the Rs. 9,000 minimum family pension would lift the Rs. 14,400 income ceiling with it, because Rule 50(9)(b) is written against the minimum rather than against a fixed figure. The rate and the eligibility conditions are a matter for the pension rules and not for a pay commission, and any revised figure attributed to the 8th Central Pay Commission is a projection until the Commission reports and revised rules are notified.

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• Additional pension in old age
• Death gratuity
• Provisional pension
• Income tax for pensioners
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• Old Pension Scheme
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• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021
• Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
• 8th Central Pay Commission

External references

• Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare
• CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021, full text
• Pensioners’ Portal
• Central Pension Accounting Office
• Income Tax Department

References

1. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, notified as G.S.R. 868(E) by the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare on 20 December 2021, Rule 50(9)(j), family pension to an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter beyond the age of twenty-five years for life or until she gets married or re-married or until she starts earning her livelihood, whichever is the earliest, with conditions (i) to (vi).
2. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, first and second provisos to Rule 50(9)(j)(vi), eligibility of a divorced daughter where the divorce proceedings were filed in a competent court during the lifetime of the government servant or pensioner or the spouse but the divorce took place after their death, and the commencement of payment where another member of the family was already drawing the family pension.
3. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rule 50(9)(a)(ii) and Rule 50(9)(b), a daughter deemed to be earning her livelihood where her income from other sources is equal to or more than the minimum family pension under Rule 50(2) and the dearness relief admissible on it; Rule 50(9)(c), the separate and higher test for a child with a disability.
4. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rule 50(9)(n) and Rule 50(9)(o), cessation on marriage or remarriage and on starting to earn a livelihood; Rule 50(9)(i), marriage not ending the entitlement of a child with a disability; Rule 50(9)(p), the annual certificate to the Pension Disbursing Authority.
5. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rule 50(2)(a)(i) to (iv) and Rule 50(2)(b), the rates of 30% and 50% of pay with the minimum of Rs. 9,000 and the maxima of Rs. 75,000 and Rs. 1,25,000; Rule 50(3), the additional family pension from the age of 80; Rule 50(4), rounding to the next higher rupee.
6. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rule 50(12)(a) to (d), the income documents required with a claim and the declaration in Form 10 about another family pension; Rule 50(13) and Rule 50(14)(a), the limits of Rs. 1,25,000 and Rs. 75,000 a month on two family pensions.
7. Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021, Rule 50(15)(g), (h) and (i), intimation to the Head of Office of a divorce of a daughter or the death of the husband of a daughter after retirement, the details to be included in Form 4, and the bar on rejecting a claim only because the member’s details are not in Form 4 or office records.
8. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 1/1(1)/2022-P&PW(E), dated 26 October 2022, grant of family pension under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 2021 to an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter of a deceased government servant or pensioner, circulated to all ministries and departments for strict implementation.
9. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 1/13/09-P&PW(E), dated 11 September 2013, eligibility of widowed and divorced daughters, paragraphs 4 and 5, dependency and the twin test at the death or ineligibility of the parents and on the date the turn comes, with the illustration.
10. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare Office Memorandum No. 1/19/03-P&PW(E), dated 30 August 2004, removal of the age restriction for a divorced or widowed daughter, read with Office Memorandum No. 45/51/97-P&PW(E) (Vol. II) dated 25 July 2001 and Office Memorandum No. 45/51/97-P&PW(E) dated 5 March 1998.
11. Income-tax Act, 2025 (Act No. 30 of 2025), in force from 1 April 2026, Section 93(1)(d), deduction of one-third of the family pension subject to Rs. 25,000 under the new regime and Rs. 15,000 under the old regime, replacing Section 57(iia) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
12. Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure, Resolution F. No. 01-01/2025-E.III(A), dated 3 November 2025, constituting the 8th Central Pay Commission.