Adjustment of dues other than pertaining to Government accommodation.

(2) Adjustment of dues other than pertaining to Government accommodation. - In respect of other Government dues steps should be taken to ascertain or assess the outstanding dues when the processing of pension papers is taken up two years prior to the retirement date. As the next stage of the actual preparation of pension papers is reached only after a year and four months, there is ample time for ascertaining all kinds of Government dues. Once that stage is reached, i.e., eight months before the retirement of the Government servant, any further probing of records for recoveries due shall cover only a limited period, i.e., not more than two years before the date of retirement. It should thus be quite possible for the Head of Office, or the Office which is to issue the Pension Payment Order, as the case may be, to ascertain or assess all the dues particularly those pertaining to long-term advances such as house-building or conveyance advances, over-payment of pay and allowances, and such other dues, prior to the prescribed deadline for the issue of the Pension payment/ Gratuity payment orders or the Provisional pension/Gratuity order. The pension papers should clearly indicate the total amount of outstanding dues which should be recovered out of the retirement gratuity before authority for the payment of gratuity (whether final or provisional) is issued ; and if, after the pension papers have been transmitted to the office responsible for issuing the Pension Payment Order, additional recoveries to be made from the gratuity come to notice, the fact shall be promptly reported to that office. In a case where no major recoveries are due, but 10% of the gratuity or Rs. 1,000 has been withheld because there might be unassessed Government dues, 1/30/2019 CHAPTER VIII http://persmin.nic.in/pension/rules/pencomp8.htm#Preparation%20of%20list%20of%20Government%20servants%20due%20for%20retirement 24/58 or because gratuity has been provisionally paid or because last pay certificate has not been received, the with held amount automatically become payable on the expiry of the six months after retirement. The Head of Office (or the office issuing the pension and gratuity payment orders) shall indicate in the orders granting a provisional gratuity (or the final Gratuity Payment Order) itself the amount of gratuity withheld and add further that the withheld amount shall be released by the officer disbursing the pension without further instructions on the expiry of the period of six months from the date of retirement, unless instructions for the recovery of a specified sum or sums from the withheld amount are issued within the aforesaid period. [G.I., M.F., O.M. No. F. 11 (3)-E. V (A).76, dated the 28th February, 1976, paragraph 10 (f).]