Single women to get pension

Hyderabad May 03: The Telangana State government has issued guidelines for the implementation of the "financial assistance to single women" scheme, here on Monday

While going to matter, To get pension under this scheme, the beneficiary should have an annual income of less than Rs 1.5 lakh in rural areas and Rs 2 lakh in urban areas.

The scheme Also indicates that the beneficiary should not be covered under any other social security pension scheme.

In this scheme, the beneficiaries will get Rs 1,000 per month. In their guidelines, the govt said 'single women' referred to married women above the age of 18 who had been separated from their husbands or whose husbands had deserted them.



Under the scheme, the separation period needed to be more than one year among unmarried single women who were above 30 years of age in rural areas and above 35 years of age in urban areas.

For those separation periods where documents were not available, these details could be ascertained by the local tahsildar after due inquiries.

The beneficiaries so identified, ought to belong to a household with annual income of less than Rs 1.5 lakh in rural areas and Rs 2 lakhs in urban areas.