The Ministry of Defence has agreed to introduce the Short-Term Family Pension to the Armed Forces Pension Scheme 2015. The provision, which is in place for members of the 1975 scheme, was not carried ...

His Majesty's Treasury has delivered a crucial update following a campaign demanding the scrapping of pension tax for elderly armed forces personnel. The petition, which has now gathered more than ...

New recruits to the Armed Forces may have to work five years longer before they can start claiming their pensions under cost-saving plans being considered by the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Proposals ...

The pension outlay for armed forces personnel, which forms a significant chunk of the annual Defence budget, has seen a marginal increase of 1.27 per cent for the 2026-27 financial year over the ...

The Union government has informed the Bombay High Court that Agniveers are not 'similarly situated' as regular soldiers and ...

The Centre told the Bombay High Court that Agniveers cannot claim parity with regular soldiers in pensionary benefits, saying ...