Is. Deadline has been declared for this. The ministry has said that till now more than 3.19 lakh pensioners have not done this necessary work. Defense pensioners will have to do this work as soon as possible to get monthly pension continuously. Pensioners have also been told the method for certification.

Ministry of Defense has requested all the Defense pensioners to complete the annual identity/life certificate for continuous and timely credit of monthly pension. All pensioners should complete this process by 20 February 2023. Let us tell you that even before this, the ministry has informed the pensioners many times for life certification.

The Defense Ministry had earlier approved the extension of pension payment by three months for pensioners of banks who had moved to the Sparsh facility and whose identification was to be made in November 2022. According to the Defense Accounts Department, 3,19,366 defense pensioners who got pension through Sparsh have not yet completed their annual recognition. It is mandatory that such pensioners complete the annual identity or life verification before the deadline.

Annual identity/life verification can be done through the following means.

• Pensioners can complete the annual identity/life verification by logging on to https://sparsh.defencepension.gov.in/ and opting for the following.
• Download and upload Manual Life Certificate (MLC) duly signed by the authorized signatory.
• By opting for Aadhaar based Digital Life Certificate (DLC).
• Pensioners can visit the nearest DPDO or Defense Accounts Service Center to complete their annual identification or life certification. Apart from this, he can also visit the service center set up by SBI, PNB, Bank of Baroda, HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank.
• Android users through Digital Jeevan Pramaan Online/Jeevan Pramaan Face App.

• Installation and usage details can be found here- https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/package/documentdowload/JeevanPramaan_FaceApp_3.6_Installation

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Let us tell you that to continue this monthly pension, it is necessary to submit the Annual Identification Life Certificate. If you do not do this, you may have to face difficulties in getting pension. Whereas, pensioners who have submitted their life certificates can check their status on the SPARSH portal.

Ministry’s statement The Defense Ministry said in its statement that the ministry had earlier approved the extension of pension payment for three months to those pensioners of banks who had migrated to SPARSH and were to be identified in November 2022. As per the information available with the Defense Accounts Department, 390366 Defense Pensioners who are getting pension through SPARSH have not yet completed their Annual Identification.

Legacy pensioners to submit life certificates as before The ministry further informed that legacy pensioners i.e. officers retired before 2016, who have not yet gone to SPARSH, can submit their life certificates in the same way as they have been doing in previous years .

Know what is SPARSH

SPARSH is a web-based system for processing pension claims and crediting pension directly to the bank accounts of defense pensioners without any external intermediary. The system is being implemented by the Ministry of Defense to meet the pension, sanction and disbursement needs of the Armed Forces.

Pensioners do not have to visit the office, the ministry says that it is a centralized approval, claim and pension disbursement system with easy verification and correction of data through self-verification. This is a digital process for the identification of the pensioner. Due to this, pensioners do not have to visit the pension office again and again.

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