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Am
I eligibile to subscribe to GPF? Is there any
exception? |
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All
permanent Government Servants, all temporary
employees including Apprentices and Probationers
who have completed one year's continuous service
and all re-employed pensioners who are not
eligible for admission to the Contributory
Provident Fund, are required to subscribe to
the GPF
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I
am a temporary Government Servant. Do I have
to Subscribe to the GPF? |
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A
temporary Government Servant normally begins
to subscribe to the fund on completion of on
year's continuous service. If he completes
this during the middle of a month, the subscription
will commence from the subsequent month.
A
temporary Government servant including Apprentice
and Probationer can, at his option, subscribe
to the Fund any time before completion of
one year's continuous service, if he is appointed
against a regular vacancy which is likely
to continue for more than a year.
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How
do I get start subscribing to the GPF? |
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No
application for admission to the GPF is necessary
in the case of Government servants after a
continuous service of one year. They are under
the rules required to subscribe to the GPF.
Application for admission to the Fund is necessary
in the case of temporary Government servants
who desire to subscribe to the fund before
completion of one year's continuous service.
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Can
I opt not to subscribe to the GPF? |
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A
subscriber may elect not to subscribe to his
GPF during extra-ordinary leave, half pay leave
and leave not due. He should communicate this
to the Head of Office before proceeding on
leave.
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What
is the minimum rate that I can subscribe to
the Fund? |
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The
minium rate that a subscriber can subcribe
to the Fund is 6% of Basic Pay+Dearness Pay.
Subscription at less than six% is permissible
in case where the suscriber elects to subscribe
at the minimum rate fixed and where by the
rounding off rule, the fraction of a rupee
of less than fifty paise, gets eleminted
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What
emoluments are taken for the purpose of fixing
the subscription to the fund?
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In
the case of a subscriber who was in Government
service on the 31st March of the preceeding
year, the emoluments to which he was entitled
on that date, will be determine the rate of
subscription. In other cases, the emoluments
to which he was entitled on the date he joins
the fund will be taken for fixing the rate
of subscription.
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Who
can be nominated under the GPF Rules conferring
the right to receive the amount that stand
to the credit of my account in the fund in
the event of my death?
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A
subscriber may nominate one or more persons
conferring on him/them the right to receive
the amount that may stand to his credit in
the Fund in the event of his death. Such person
or persons may include a company or association
or body of individuals, whether incorporated
or not.
A
subscribe who has a family at the time of
making the nomination has to make such nomination
only in favour of a member or members of
his family.
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On
what occasions am I required to send fresh
nominations to the Accounts Officers concerend?
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A subscriber
is required to send fresh nomination -
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when
he has cancelld the nomination made by
him earlier;
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immediately
on a nominee, in respect of whom no special
provision has been made in the nomination
as alternate nominee(s), predecesasing
the subscriber; and
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when
the nomination made earlier becomes invalid
in the event of an unmarried subscriber
getting married; and subscriber having
only one member of family at the time
of mking the nomination, subsequently
acquiring that member or members in this
family.
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When
does subscription to the GPF cease? |
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In
the case of retirement of subscriber on superannuation,
the subscription to the fund shall not be made
during the last three months of his service.
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