However, private sector personnel receiving pensions from the Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) under the Employees' Pension Scheme (EPS), 1995, have a different deadline for submitting the life certificate.
As per a tweet on EPFO's official Twitter account. “Attention EPS'95 Pensioners, Jeevan Pramaan Patra is valid for 12 months”.
In another tweet, it said, “EPS’95 Pensioners can now submit Life Certificate at any time which will be valid for 1 year from date of submission.”
The tweet states that pensioners under EPS' 95 are exempt from submitting Jeevan Praman in November 2022 if their pensions began less than a year ago or if they did so in December 2021 or later.
The validity of the Jeevan Praman Patra is 12 months from the date of the prior submission. The pensioners have to submit Jeevan Pramaan Patra no later than 12 months from the date the prior life certificate was submitted.
According to a December 2019 EPFO circular on the submission of a life certificate or Jeevan Pramaan Patra, "Submission of life certificate or Jeevan Pramaan Patra by Employees Pension Scheme, 1995 pensioners in the month of November in each year may be replaced by a system of submission of life certificate/Jeevan Pramaan after a year from the date of submission of last life certificate/Jeevan Pramaan. Accordingly, pensioners will have to submit the life certificate/Jeevan Pramaan in the same month during the next year failing which pension will be stopped from the succeeding month."
You would have to make sure to submit your Jeevan Pramaan Patra as an EPS 1995 pensioner no later than November 25, 2022, if you have submitted your yearly life certificate on November 25, 2021. If you don't submit it by this date, you will stop receiving pension payments starting in December 2022.
