This story is from January 25, 2020

West Bengal: Unmarried woman to get family pension

The Calcutta HC on Friday asked the state government to pay family pension to an unmarried woman whose parents died in 1997.
West Bengal: Unmarried woman to get family pension
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KOLKATA: The Calcutta HC on Friday asked the state government to pay family pension to an unmarried woman whose parents died in 1997. The HC asked the state to pay Champa Ray Chowdhury, a Sodepur resident, to pay all dues since 2010 with an 8% interest.
Chowdhury had moved court seeking pension after the government changed its family pension rules for unmarried daughters.
The earlier rules stipulated that unmarried daughters were eligible for family pension till they were 25 years of age or got married, whichever was earlier. In 2010, the state removed the age bar.
Champa's father, a government school clerk, had died in 1997. Her mother, too, died in the same year. She told the HC that she had to depend on others for sustenance. After the new rules were introduced in 2010, she applied for family pension. But she was more than 25 years old by then, and her plea was turned down because the state reasoned that her parents died in 1997 and the rules were amended in 2010. In 2018, a single bench of HC ordered the state to pay her family pension. The state moved the division bench. The division bench upheld the order and asked the state to pay the dues with 8% interest.
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