Demand of insurance employee for 30% family pension has been pending with the DFS Department of the Government for long.
While the same demand of 30% family pension by the bank employees has been cleared by about a year back, for employees of GIC and LIC a proposal in this regard has been shelved.
Family pension is the pension the widow or widower avails after the death of the pensioner spouse.
When the percentage of income tax is the same, when voting right is the same, not to give 30% family pension to insurance employees not justified, lamented General insurance Pensioners All India Federation chairman Rajendra Prasad Samal.
"We appeal to our Finance Minister to weigh and consider our demands judiciously on the sensitive issue because widows of the insurance employees are not lesser humans to be discriminated against," Samal added.
