Opening of pension account by a pensioner jointly with spouse

भारतीय डाक विभाग DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA
मुख्य पोस्टमास्टर जनरल कार्यालय, केरल परिमंडल, तिरुवनंतपुरम – 695 033 Office of the Chief Postmaster General, Kerala Circle, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 033
दूरभाष/Tel: 0471-2307994	फैक्स/Fax: 2307993		ई मेल/e-mail: osdco.keralapost@gmail.com

By E-mail/INVOICED

To

The Divisional Heads,

Kerala Circle

No.SB/General Correspondence/13 dated at Thiruvananthapuram – 33 the    03.02.14

            Sub:     Opening of pension account by a pensioner jointly with spouse reg:

            Ref:      SB Order 11/2007

            This is regarding amendment to rule 4 of Post Office savings account rule 1981 regarding opening of pension accounts. This office is in receipt of public complaints, as the Post Offices are not allowing the existing pensioners who hold a single account(pension account) to joint account, on the plea that they are not aware of any departmental orders enabling such conversion.

As per SB order No.11/2007 dated 20.07.2007, “the existing Railway, Telecom and Postal pensioners can also convert their existing pension account into joint account. For this, the procedure laid down for conversion of single saving account into joint saving account may be followed with the exception that the concerned Postmaster/Sub Postmaster will verify the name of joint holder (spouse) mentioned in revised SB-3 with that of PPO and ensure that the this joint holder is the authorized person to draw family pension as mentioned in the PPO.”

Please re-iterate the above instruction to all the Post Offices, under your jurisdiction immediately and instruct them to follow the same strictly, so that the complaints on the above lines can be stopped. A compliance report on the same may please be forwarded to this office immediately.

(वी.के. रवीन्द्रनाथ/ V.K. Reveendranadh)

विशेष कार्याधिकारी /Officer on Special Duty

Copy to:

The Postmaster General, Northern Region, Calicut – 673 011

The Postmaster General, Central Region, Kochi – 682 018

-          For favour of kind information

विशेष कार्याधिकारी /Officer on Special Duty

Endt.No.C1/Pension/Rulings/13-14 dated at Palakkad -1 the 03.01.2014Forwarded to : All departmental offices, Palakkad division-The instructions contained in the CO letter may be followed strictly and compliants avoided.

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प्रवर अधीक्षक डाकघर, पालक्काड
Sr. Superintendent of Post Offices,
Palakkad Division, Palakkad 678001
0491 2544740,  2545850