Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW), has published the CCS (Pension) Amendment Rules, 2024. in the Gazette of India, vide GSR – 410 (E), dated 16 July, 2024. The amendment is mainly for introduction of Form-6A to submit particulars of family details at the time of retirement as given below:-

Rule – 57: The Government servant shall submit duly completed Form 6-A to the Head of the Office, not later than six months prior to his date of retirement.

Rule – 58: A Government servant, who is retiring or has retired for reasons other than superannuation, shall submit Form 6-A to the Head of Office, immediately after the competent authority has approved such retirement or the retirement has become effective, as the case may be.

Rule – 80: Provided that if there is no member of the family eligible to receive family pension on death of Government servant, a member of the family in whose favour a nomination was made by the Government servant for payment of gratuity, shall be allowed to submit Form 6-A in place of Form 10 and the said member of the family shall indicate, the details of his or her Bank Account in Form 6-A.

The amendments are effective from 13 November, 2024, i. e. after one hundred twenty days from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.