New Delhi: Authorities staff subscribing to the Centre’s Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) – introduced on August 24 – may see a giant hike of their pension cheques, a report has claimed. In accordance with a Instances of India report, the federal government’s contribution beneath the UPS will improve from the present 14 per cent to 18.5 per cent. That is more likely to result in an general 19 per cent hike in pensions for workers beginning with a month-to-month wage of Rs 50,000.
The Unified Pension Scheme will profit 23 lakh central staff, whereas its adoption by state governments will doubtlessly profit as much as 90 lakh.
The report considers a 3 per cent annual wage hike and a compounding annual development fee of 8 per cent, however the calculations exclude dearness allowance and pay fee awards. This implies the pension corpus might be even larger, the report stated.
At the moment, the Centre has three pension fund managers for its staff, together with State Financial institution of India, Life Insurance coverage Company of India and Unit Belief of India. The Union Cupboard has given the inexperienced sign to UPS for presidency staff, which is more likely to profit 23 lakh central staff. And if state governments undertake an identical framework, this quantity may rise to 90 lakh.
