Employees insurance.

Byline: R.K Tahir - Islamabad

THE family of a federal government employee who dies while in service is entitled to get group insurance money in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Employees Benevolent Fund and Group Insurance Act 1969.

But such an employee does not get even a single rupee of group insurance money when he retires. This is because the aforesaid law does not provide for payment of group insurance money to a retiring federal employee. This is despite the fact that he continues paying the group insurance contribution from his monthly salary during his service till the date of retirement.

Contrary to this, the Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments had enacted laws namely, Act No 10 of 2009 and XXVIII of 2014, under which they have been...

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