#Pension

The Supreme Court held that contractual staff regularised under an adopted policy may have their pre-regularisation counted as qualifying pension service, keeping them under the old scheme. The ruling restores pension benefits to ad-hoc staff in India.

Patna HC held that the 20% and 30% extra pension increments apply only after a pensioner actually turns 80 or 85, not from the start of those years. Bihar must recalculate payouts and the benefit period is narrowed. All pensioners under the state’s old-age scheme are affected.