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EPF

Possible, with a will

Rs. 1,000 and less! Some 37 lakh senior citizens and their dependents survive on this monthly pittance called pension from the Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995 of the EPF Act 1952.

A decent pension

The new pension scheme for its employees, inferior to the existing one, is a case in point. More disturbing is the denial, due to some flimsy objections, of the higher pension right to a large number of employees already covered under the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) scheme, not to speak of the total exclusion of a category of employees recruited after 1 September 2014.