Invalid Pension to Armed Forces Personnel

The Government has recently decided to allow Invalid Pension to Armed Forces Personnel with less than ten years of qualifying service.

Who are not eligible under this Provision?

• This pension is granted to the Armed Forces Personnel who is invalided out of service on account of a disability which is accepted as Neither Attributable to Nor Aggravated (NANA) by Military Service.
• It will be available to those Armed Forces Personnel who were in service on or after 4th January 2019.

Earlier Provision

• Earlier, the minimum period of qualifying service rendered and required for an invalid pension was ten years or more.

Beneficiaries:

By this decision, those Armed Forces Personnel will be benefited:

• whose service is less than ten years
• who became or became invalided out of service on account of any bodily or mental infirmity
• who have permanently incapacitated or incapacitates them from military service
• Also, they will be considered for civil re-employment will be benefited.

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