Submission of Digital Life Certificate by numerous pensioners will quickly start at Jeevan Pramaan Centres (JPCs) at Head Post Offices across the nation. The facility of submission of Life Certificates by the pensioners aged 80 years and above will be permitted from 1st October 2021 to 30th November 2021. The remaining pensioners may well continue to submit their Life Certificates from 1st November 2021 to 30th November 2021.
In view of the upcoming activity of submission of Digital Life Certificate by pensioners to commence from October 1, 2021, the Department of Posts below the Ministry of Communications is producing sure to get all the Jeevan Pramaan Centre IDs activated which could be at the moment inactive. The post offices have been informed to establish the Jeevan Pramaan Centres at the Head Post Offices wherein it has not been established, get their Jeevan Pramaan IDs made and make sure that all Jeevan Pramaan Centre IDs as properly as Common Service Centres (CSCs) are activated by 20th Sept, 2021.
Last year, in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and maintaining in view of the vulnerability of elderly population to Corona Virus, it was decided to extend the current timeline for submission of Life Certificate. In 2020, all Central Government pensioners have been permitted to submit Life Certificate from 1st November, 2020 onward, till 31st December 2020. However, the pensioners in the age group of 80 years and above, have been asked to submit Life Certificate from
1st October, 2020 onwards, to 31st December, 2020. During this extended period, the pension continued to be paid by the Pension Disbursing Authorities (PDAs)
uninterrupted.
For on line submission of life certificate for pensioners, the procedure does not involve going to the bank or post workplace. In the on line submission of life certificate, it can be accomplished even from home. One can opt for ‘Jeevan Pramaan’ an Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate (DLC) which is an add on facility to the currently current way of submission of Life Certificate in the physical mode. In truth, Jeevan Pramaan is the distinctive ID that gets generated as soon as the procedure of DLC is completed. The Jeevan Praman Patra is then automatically processed and sent to the bank branch or the post workplace as proof that the pensioner is alive.