The Central Government and the State Government keep on starting new schemes from time to time. With the help of these schemes, the citizens of the country can get benefits. The old age pension scheme has been started in Uttar Pradesh. In this article, we will tell you what Old Age Pension Scheme is and how you can apply for it.
What is Old Age Pension Scheme?
If there is a senior citizen in your family and you do not have any source of regular income for their expenses, then you can take advantage of the old age pension scheme of the central or state government for them. Both the central and state governments together contribute to the old age pension scheme.
The financial assistance of the old age pension scheme varies in every state of the country. Under the old age pension scheme, you will be given a fixed amount every month as a pension. You can apply for this scheme sitting at home.
Which documents are needed?
If you want to apply for this scheme, then you must have a passport-size photo, certificate, Aadhaar card, birth certificate, identity card and bank passbook. Let us tell you that to participate in the first old age pension scheme, your age should be up to 60 years. Apart from this, if you get a senior citizen to apply for this scheme, then their age should also be up to 65 years. The applicant for the old age pension scheme must belong to a family living below the poverty line.
How to apply?
To apply for the old age pension scheme, you have to visit the official website of this scheme.
If the son or daughter in the applicant's family is more than 20 years old but he is also passing below the poverty line, then also the applicant will get the benefit of this scheme. After clicking on Old Age Pension Scheme, a new page will open on your screen.
Now here you will see the option of 'Apply Online', click on it. Now another new page will open in front of you, in which you will see many options. Out of these, tap on the option 'New Entry Form'. After this, a form will open in front of you, fill in all your information in it and save it by clicking on the button given below. After this, you will get financial help of Rs 4500 every month from this scheme.
In this way, you can get financial help by applying for an old-age pension scheme.
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