Punjab Government on Thursday issued directions to all the Deputy Commissioners of the State to verify old-age pensioners as per the guidelines of Social Security Department. In a communiqué in this regard, DCs have been asked to tally the list of old-age pension beneficiaries with the voters’ list. They were also told that if name of any beneficiary was not found in the voter list or age below the prescribed age, the name of the beneficiary would be deleted from the pensioners list.
The DCs were directed to submit complete report before December 15 to the Director social security. In this regard, district level officers, who will provide updated data of voters’ list with updated age of voters. Deputy Directors of the department have been deputed for monitoring of the verification in those districts where number of beneficiaries was more than 1 lakh.