TheHaryanagovernment has stopped the old age pension of around 2.77 lakh beneficiaries over the past three years from January 1, 2019, to February 28, 2022. While the old age pension of 94,857 beneficiaries was stopped in 2019, 68,746 lost their pension in 2020 and 99,452 in 2021.
In the first two months of this year (till February 28), the state had stopped the pension of 24,621 beneficiaries, raising the total tally of those whose pension has been discontinued during this period to 27,7676.
As far as district wise data is concerned, 19,211 people lost their pension in the past three years and two months inHisar, followed by 18,251 in Karnal, and 16,797 in Jind. In Panchkula, 4,204 people lost their old age pension.