Pensioners’ Plight
The Comptroller Military Accounts Officers (Pension Section) is reported to
have issued a letter dated 1st September 2015, but dispatched on 9th
Sept. asking retired army officers to submit a life certificate latest by 10th
Sept. 2015, failing which their pension could be withheld. No less than a
retired Lieutenant General visited the office of the CMAO (P) to apprise them
of the possibility of their letter reaching the officers after the due date and
as such the last date for the submission of the certificate should be
extended. But naturally of no avail. When the general narrated to me his
woeful tale of being unsuccessful to convince the CMA staff to see the light, I
cautioned him to be careful as anything could be expected of the CMA.
They are on record to have asked an officer during the British days who had
submitted a similar life certificate, to submit the certificates for the previous
three years also to prove that! he was alive during those years as well!!
CMA, great people to deal with.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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