Med cert enough for disabled to get family pension: HC

Court says state, central pension rules make it clear no other documentation is needed for pensioners' children with intellectual disability

- EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Madurai

THE Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has observed that pensioners' children, who suffer intellectual disability, should be given family pension on submission of a medical certificate evidencing his or her incapacity to earn livelihood on their own, without insisting on a certificate denoting income from all sources.

A bench of justices GR Swaminathan and K Rajasekar made the observation recently while hearing an appeal filed by the principal accountant general of Tamil Nadu against an order passed by the court directing payment of family pension to the intellectually challenged son of a forester.