EPFO LATEST REPLY ON RTI

Please provide me the following information duly certified point-wise

It is a fact that the EPFO employees/officers are not getting salary from the consolidated funds of Govt of India as in the case of employees of Central/State public sector enterprises. The former are getting pension as per Central Government pattern (out of the administrative charges paid by employers) whereas the later are getting pension as per EPS95 (out of the employers contribution). Meaning thereby, the source of finance is the same i.e. employers of various establishments. If retirees of EPFO can get pension revision from time to time, under which orders/rule the members of EPS95 cannot get the benefit of pension revision despite the fact that the issue has attained finality in the Supreme Court.

You must be aware that EPFO HQ had filed an SLP no. 19954 of 2015 decided on 12.7.16 in the Supreme Court arising out of WA 1362 of 2014 decided on 17.10.14 & WPC 254 of 2014 decided on 4.3.14 by the Kerala High Court. RC Gupta case was also attached with this SLP. RC Gupta case was decided on 4.10.16 but the aforesaid SLP had been dismissed by the Apex Court on 12.7.16 upholding the decision of Division Bench as above and the matter has, thus, attained finality. In these cases, all the petitioners were retirees and some of them had also withdrawn their PF amount and they had not exercised options under para 26(6) or 11(3) of the EPS95 as claimed by EPFO. After the dismissal of SLP, Pension of all the petitioners had been revised accordingly. Further, a large number of WPs have been decided by the Kerala High Court wherein the benefits of pension revision have been allowed to the retiree members of EPS.