Delhi old-age pension survey starts: home visits begin for 4.3 lakh beneficiaries; check payout rates and key details
The Delhi government launched a door-to-door verification drive on Saturday to check whether beneficiaries receiving old-age pension are eligible for the scheme and whether they live at the registered address they provided. The survey, which started on Saturday, 24 October, aims to shortlist and identify genuine beneficiaries while removing ineligible recipients from the pension list. This initiative has been led by the Delhi government’s Social Welfare Department. The department is focused on completing the verification exercise within the next 90 days (i.e., 3 months). The survey will cover more than 4.30 lakh elderly pension beneficiaries across Delhi. Officials will digitally record the survey data and geotag the beneficiaries' registered addresses. This is intended to verify whether the pension recipients actually reside at the locations and addresses provided by them to the…
