Armed forces tribunal Law Videos - Family Pension for Military Personnel

Pension when it is given to the widow or family members of the service personnel after his death is called family pension. Death of such Armed Forces personnel may be during service or while drawing pension on account of his retirement.

There are three kinds of family pensions : 

1) Liberalised Family Pension granted to families of the Armed Forces personnel killed in war or war like operations, counter insurgency operations or in an encounter with or in incident involving armed hostiles, terrorists, anti-social elements etc, 

2) Special Family Pension may be granted to the family of an Armed Force personnel if his death is due to or hastened by a wound, injury or disease which is attributable to military service or aggravated by military service which was existed or arose during military service.

3) Ordinary Family Pension is granted to Families of an Armed Force Personnel who die during service for causes neither attributable to nor aggravated by service, or after retirement with pension

Special Child, unmarried or divorced daughter(s) are authorised for life time family pension.

Advocate Wg. Cdr. Ajit Kakkar can be consulted for further information at http://lawrato.com/advocate-ajit-kakkar
or by calling 09599-000-555.