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Family Pension Application

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Price: Free, always.
Stamp duty: Punjab and Chandigarh: no stamp duty is payable.
Registration: Punjab and Chandigarh: not registrable.
Witnesses: Punjab and Chandigarh: no witness is needed for the application.

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Also called

family pension claim
widow pension of retired employee
pensioner death family pension
pension after death of pensioner
parivarik pension
pensioner di maut ton baad pension

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The application to start family pension when a pensioner has died — made by the spouse, or by a child, parent or other dependant where the pension rules allow. It is addressed to the office that sanctions or pays the pension, tells it of the death, asks it to stop the pensioner's pension from the date of death, to start family pension in your favour and to pay the arrears, and lists the papers you send.

You name the pensioner's service and the rules under which the pension was drawn, give the Pension Payment Order number if you know it, say how you are related to the pensioner, and list the other family members who may also claim. The rules decide who qualifies, in what order, from what date and at what rate; the application asks the office to say what it will pay and how it is worked out, and does not state a rate. Papers to attach: the death certificate; the pensioner's pension book or Pension Payment Order, if you have it; proof of your relationship; your identity and address proofs with the Aadhaar number masked; your bank details on the office's form; and the office's own claim form. No stamp duty or registration is needed for the letter. Not for the social-security pension for the old or for widows (use the Old Age / Widow Pension Affidavit). For the provident fund and the pension scheme that goes with it, see the EPF and Pension Death Claim Covering Letter.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

Punjab and Chandigarh: no stamp duty is payable. An application to a pension office to start family pension creates, transfers or extinguishes no right in itself, so it is not an instrument within section 2(14) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899, and the applicant signs it alone. The office may separately ask for an affidavit or an indemnity on stamp paper; those are other papers, and their duty is not part of this letter.

Registration

Punjab and Chandigarh: not registrable. A pension is money, not immovable property, so section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 does not reach this application. Keep a copy and the office's acknowledgement.

Notarisation

Punjab and Chandigarh: no notarisation is needed for the application. The office's own claim form, and any affidavit it asks for, may need to be attested or sworn before an officer, a notary or an oath commissioner; follow what the form says.

Witnesses

Punjab and Chandigarh: no witness is needed for the application. The applicant signs alone; any witness or attestation on the office's form is its requirement.

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FAMILY PENSION APPLICATION

Application to start family pension after the death of a pensioner

Date: 2 April 2026, at Chandigarh

To: The Officer in charge of pensions, Office of the Accountant General (A&E), Punjab, Chandigarh, Sector 17, Chandigarh

From: Aarav Singh, Sector 35, Chandigarh. Telephone: +91 XXXXX XXXXX. Email: aarav@example.com.

Subject: Death of pensioner Harpreet Singh, PPO no. PPO/2016/12345 — application for family pension

Sir or Madam,

1. The pensioner. Harpreet Singh drew pension as a Government of Punjab or Chandigarh Administration employee, under that government's pension rules. The pensioner last served at: Department of Education, Punjab; retired 30 June 2016. The Pension Payment Order number is PPO/2016/12345. The pension was paid through Punjab National Bank, Sector 17, Chandigarh.

2. The death. Harpreet Singh died on 1 April 2026 at Chandigarh. The death certificate is DTH/2026/118, and a copy is enclosed. Please record the death against the pension from that date.

3. My claim. My relationship to the pensioner: Spouse (widow or widower) of the pensioner. How I depended on the pensioner: Unmarried daughter, living with and supported by the pensioner. I apply for family pension under the pension rules that applied to the pensioner.

4. The rest of the family. The other members of the family who may claim are: Son Aarav Singh, 28, Sector 35, Chandigarh; daughter Meera Singh, 25, Ludhiana. If none, write None.

5. What I ask you to do.

(a) Stop the pensioner's pension from the date of death, and tell me in writing whether any amount paid after that date has to be returned and how.

(b) Start family pension in my favour from the date the rules allow, and pay me the arrears from that date.

(d) Tell me in writing the claim form and every paper you need from me and from the other members of the family, and issue a fresh Pension Payment Order or authority for my pension.

(e) Pay to me any other money that falls due to the family on the death of the pensioner under the rules, and tell me what it is and how it is worked out.

(f) Pay the amount due to the account described in paragraph 6.

6. Where to pay. Please pay the amount to the account held by Naina Singh with State Bank of India, Sector 35, Chandigarh, account ending 4821. I will give the full account number on your own form and not in this letter.

7. What I state. I have given the facts above as I know them. I will tell you at once if any fact changes, including if I marry again or become entitled to another pension, where the rules ask me to tell you.

8. If the application is not decided. If you reject the application or do not reply within the time allowed, I will write to the head of your office and then to the pension grievance officer of the department concerned, and I am free to go to the court or tribunal that hears pension matters for the pensioner's service.

Questions about this document

Does the Family Pension Application need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Punjab and Chandigarh: no stamp duty is payable.

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Does the Family Pension Application need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Punjab and Chandigarh: not registrable.

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What does the Family Pension Application cost on Kaagazaat?

Free, always.

Does the Family Pension Application need witnesses?

Punjab and Chandigarh: no witness is needed for the application.

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