The state government has been reminding the pensioners in Bihar (more than one crore) that they have to submit their annual life certificate or Jeevan Pramaan to receive the pension payments. The need impacts a significant portion of beneficiaries, such as old-age citizens, widows, and individuals with disabilities who receive monthly pensions under a number of state welfare programs. The government has made it very clear that any time after the stipulated period that failure to state the life certificate will lead to suspension of the receipt of the pension, and that all the qualified beneficiaries should implement it promptly.
A life certificate is a document that is used to prove that the pensioner is alive and that he or she is entitled to receive his or her benefits. It belongs to the attempts of the government to preserve transparency and deny fraudulent statements in pension disbursement. The Bihar government has, over the last few years, been encouraging pensioners to submit their certificates through the portal named Jeevan Pramaan, which permits biometric authentication and provides a seamless, paperless experience. This online invention has simplified the process through which elderly people can perform the procedure without necessarily visiting the offices of the government.
To further ease the process of submissions, the state has made special camps and doorstep services whereby the local banks and post offices cooperate with the state. These initiatives are meant to see to it that even the less digitally literate or those who have mobility problems are able to file their life certificates at their convenience. Pensioners who are 80 years and older have been provided with an early submission date of October 1, and the overall submission date of November 1 to November 30. It is pertinent to stick to these timelines so as not to be impacted due to lapses in pension payments.
The government officials have advised pensioners and their families to be extra careful when it comes to due dates and to take advantage of the available resources so that there are no such incidents if their financial resources are not affected. This would cause a lot of hardships to many beneficiaries whose daily needs rely on these pensions, which might be missed by the failure to submit them. To provide convenience to the digital submission, there are offline processes that are still open to people for in-person verification.
To summarize, the life certificate requirement in the state of Bihar is a normal yet important procedure to guarantee that only legitimate beneficiaries of the pensions are targeted. Pensioners are able to get a continuity of their financial entitlement by submitting their Jeevan Pramaan on time. The authorities have undertaken several plans to facilitate the process and are also actively contacting the beneficiaries to be compliant. This exercise, which has more than a crore people involved, emphasizes the need for administrative care in the protection of the welfare of the senior and vulnerable population of the state.
