Fixation of Pension for Pre-2016 Pensioners

7th Pay Commission recommendations on Fixation of Pension for Pre-2016 Pensioners to maintain parity between Pensioners who retired before the effective date of implementation of 7th Pay Commission and Post-2016 Pensioners

All the civilian personnel including CAPF who retired prior to 01.01.2016 (expected date of implementation of the Seventh CPC recommendations) shall first be fixed in the Pay Matrix being recommended by this Commission, on the basis of the Pay Band and Grade Pay at which they retired, at the minimum of the corresponding level in the matrix.

(i) This amount shall be raised, to arrive at the notional pay of the retiree, by adding the number of increments he/she had earned in that level while in service, at the rate of three percent. Fifty
percent of the total amount so arrived at shall be the revised pension.

(ii) The second calculation to be carried out is as follows. The pension, as had been fixed at the time of implementation of the VI CPC recommendations, shall be multiplied by 2.57 to arrive at an alternate value for the revised pension.

Pensioners may be given the option of choosing whichever formulation is beneficial to them.

It is recognised that the fixation of pension as per formulation in (i) above may take a little time since the records of each pensioner will have to be checked to ascertain the number of increments earned in the retiring level. It is therefore recommended that in the first instance the revised pension may be calculated as at (ii) above and the same may be paid as an interim measure.

In the event calculation as per (i) above yields a higher amount the difference may be paid subsequently.

Illustration on fixation of pension based on recommendations of the Seventh CPC.

Case I

Pensioner ‘A’ retired at last pay drawn of ₹79,000 on 30 May, 2015 under the VI CPC regime, having drawn three increments in the scale ₹67,000 to 79,000:

		Amount in
1.	Basic Pension fixed in VI CPC	39,500
2.	Initial Pension fixed under Seventh CPC (using a multiple of 2.57)	1,01,515- Option 1
3.	Minimum of the corresponding pay level in 7 CPC	1,82,200
4.	Notional Pay fixation based on 3 increments	1,99,100
5.	50 percent of the notional pay so arrived	99,550- Option 2
6.	Pension amount admissible (higher of Option 1 and 2)	1,01,515

Case II

Pensioner ‘B’ retired at last pay drawn of Rs 4,000 on 31 January, 1989 under the IV CPC regime, having drawn 9 increments in the pay scale of Rs 3000-100-3500-125-4500:

		Amount in
1.	Basic Pension fixed in IV CPC	1,940
2.	Basic Pension as revised in VI CPC	12,543
3.	Initial Pension fixed under Seventh CPC (using a multiple of 2.57)	32,236 Option 1
4.	Minimum of the corresponding pay level in 7 CPC	67,700
5.	Notional Pay fixation based on 9 increments	88,400
6.	50 percent of the notional pay so arrived	44,200 Option 2
7.	Pension amount admissible (higher of Option 1 and 2)	44,200

Source : 7th Pay Commission Report