FREE MEDICAL AID TO PENSIONERS AND DEPENDANTS
Medical facilities in the Board’s Dispensaries
are to be extended to the retired employees, based on the Identity Cards issued
by the Audit Branch. Identity cards
will be issued to pensioners in duplicate.
The duplicate card will be retained by the dispensary, leaving the
original with the pensioner.
2. Family
members/dependants of the pensioners are eligible for the free treatment. (Memo.No.21668-P2/82-1, dated 31-12-82).
3. Free
treatment shall be given to the employees and their dependants on production of
the identity cards, in Govt. Hospitals also.
(K.Dis.No.82672/all/43/86, dated 29-12-86 of the Director of Medical
Services and Family Welfare).
4. The
existing free medical treatment in the Government Hospitals will be continued
to the family pensioners, irrespective of the fact that they are being paid
monthly Medical Allowance also.
(B.P.No.94, dated 2-3-87).
5. The
work of renewal of Medical Identity
Cards in respect of pensioners and family pensioners within the State, hitherto
attended to by the Chief Internal Audit Officer, shall now be entrusted to the
Executive Engineer, O&M, of that area, either by post or in person,
annually. If the validity of the
identity card expired finally, the Executive Engineer, O&M, of that area
shall arrange to obtain that card and forward it to the C.I.A.O.
(Memo.No.14236-N1/90-3 dated 7-6-90).
6. Identity
cards in the case of Family pensioners will be issued by the Audit Branch. The identify cards in the case of dependants
of employees, who die in harness, will be issued by the Pay Disbursing Officers
whom the deceased employees last served at the time of their death, after
verifying the particulars available in the application and in the Service Book
of the employee concerned.
(Memo.No.64975/P2/83-2, dated 3-1-84).
7. It is
not necessary that consequent to the payment of Medical Allowances to
pensioners, the issue of Medical Identity card to pensioners may be dispensed
with. (Lr.No.34397/N1/87-6, dated
23-1-88).
8. Dependants
of the employees who die while in service, are eligible for medical
concession. Identity Cards in the case
of family pensioners will be issued by the Audit Branch. (Memo.No.64973-p2/83-2. dated 3-1-84)
9. Free
medical concession may be extended to the dependants of temporary employees,
including those employed under emergency provisions in posts carrying a fixed
pay, so long as they continued in service on par with permanent employees, with
effect from 16-4-88/B.P.No.94, dated 16-4-88).
10. Free
medical concession may be extended to the family pensioners of an employee who
dies in harness, till such period as the deceased would have reached the
retiring age. (G.O.No.535, dated
8-3-72).
11. The
same medical concession as the deceased employee was entitled to at the time of
his death, will be given to the family pensioners, till they become earning
members in the case of male dependants and till the female members become
earning members or get married or till such period as the deceased would have
reached the retirement age, whichever is earlier. (G.O.459/H&FW/dated 20-3-80).
12. The
monthly medical allowance has been enhanced to Rs.50/- p.m. with effect from
1-12-95 onwards. (B.P.No.256, dated
30-8-95).
13. Pensioners
who are in receipt of more than one State pension i.e. State service pension
and family pension, should be paid only on one pension. Pensioners who are on re-employment are not
entitled to medical allowance.
14. Pensioners,
who are paid an ex-gratia on a adhoc payment basis are not eligible for medical
allowance. The same may be paid after
regular pension is sanctioned. (Lr.No.34397/N1/87-6/23-1-88).
15. Monthly
medical allowance is not admissible during the period of terminal leave
salary. (Lr.No.3507 dated 1-2-91).
16 . In
the case of Divisible pensioners, the medical allowance can be divided as per
the share payable to the pensioners.
17. Medical
allowance shall be allowed during all leave periods except during suspension,
surrender leave salary and ordinary leave without pay and allowances. (Memo.No.76552/N2/89-7-18-12-90).
18. Monthly
medical allowance is admissible to family pensioners in whose cases the
pensioners dies after retirement. (Lr.No.65264 dated 1-7-88).
19. Medical
allowance is admissible to the family pensioners who are getting provisional
pension pending finalisation of regular family pension. (B.P.No. 6 dated
31-1-97).
20. The
families of employees, who die in harness, are eligible for reimbursement, till
the normal date of retirement of the employees. The monthly medical allowance is admissible from the normal date
of retirement of the deceased employees.
If the family pensioner prefer to draw monthly medical allowance in lieu
of medical reimbursement, even upto the date of normal retirement, the same can
be sanctioned. (Memo.No. 64026/NI/86-1 dated 11-5-87 and B.P.No. 1 dated
3-1-90) Future family pensioners shall exercise their option for medical allowance
within 3 months. (B.P.No. 246 dated 30-8-96).
The option once exercised is final and it cannot be revoked (Lr. No.
63069 dated 28-11-90). Board employees
shall not be allowed both medical allowance as family pensioner and medical
reimbursement as serving employee. They shall be allowed to avail medical
reimbursement only, if they opt for it and medical allowance of family pension
shall not be allowed. Those who are
getting medical allowance, both as
serving employee and as family pensioner shall be allowed medical allowance in
the capacity of serving employee only. (Lr.No. 54556 dated 20-3-95).
22. The
pensioners residing outside the State of Tamilnadu may be allowed medical
allowance from 1-2-88, dispensing with the procedure of claiming reimbursement
after obtaining Idendity card.