Pension at higher rate – Order reserved by Supreme Court

Arguments on the 67 Employees’ Pension Scheme petitions in the Supreme Court were finally concluded on 10.8.2022. Every member of Employees’ Provident Fund (with inbuilt pension scheme) is expecting higher pension rate which has been held by Kerala High Court. If the judgment of Kerala High Court upheld the pensioner will be benefited with higher pension rate.

How and to what extent the benefit of higher pension will accrued can be understood that one Mr. Parveen Kohli a retired employee of Haryana Tourism Ltd. whose pension was sanctioned for Rs.2,372 per month but in view of his higher salary it was increased to Rs.30,592 per month. Let us wait for favourable judgment.