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2009: The NSAP is expanded to include the Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS) [3] – for widows aged 40–64 years – and the Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) [4] – for persons with multiple or severe disabilities aged 18–64 years living below the poverty line.
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Aawas Yojana (lit. ' Prime Minister's Rural Housing Scheme ') is a social welfare programme under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to provide housing for the rural poor in India. [1]
The National Social Assistance Programme is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of the Government of India that provides solidarity financial benefits to elderly people who were unable to work and has no other pension rights, widows/widowers who's left without the family breadwinner and persons with disabilities in the form of social pensions.
A widow's pension is a payment from the government of a country to a person whose spouse has died. Generally, such payments are made to a widow whose late spouse has fulfilled the country's requirements, including contribution, cohabitation, and length of marriage.
Aasara pension is a pension scheme by the Government of Telangana. It is a welfare scheme of pensions to old people, widows, Goud community, elephantiasis patients, AIDS afflicted people, physically disabled and beedi workers. [1] By March 2018, the number of beneficiaries stood at 42 lakhs. [2]
The pension expenditure of Central Government in 1990-91 was 0.38 per cent of GDP and 3.9 per cent of net revenue amounting to 2,138 crores. [13] In 1993-94, the pension liability jumped to 0.6 per cent of GDP at 5,206 crores. [14] The pension cost for exchequer was growing at a CAGR of 21% per annum in the 1990s.
Physical and mental disability are also factors that the BPL does not take into account. As government records show, there are a total of 11.31 lakh disabled people in the state of Madhya Pradesh, 8.9 lakh of which live below the poverty line; yet only 3.8 lakh receive government help in the form of social security pension.
A similar benefit is provided in Malta in accordance to the Widows and Orphans Pension Act of 1927. The qualifying conditions are as follows: the deceased partner must have paid National Insurance contributions for at least 25 weeks in one tax year since 6 April 1975. Bereavement Support Payment consists of 2 parts, firstly: