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EPFO’s gross new subscribers addition declined by over 4 per cent to 10.9 million in 2023-24
The report also showed that the gross addition of members of...
AP Govt to disburse hiked welfare pensions on July 1
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Indians grossly underprepared to face the financial instability caused by eventualities: Max Life Survey
Prashant Tripathy, Managing Director and CEO, Max Life Insurance said: “The survey reveals some interesting and startling findings about the state of protection in the country as well as the attitudes, behaviours and apprehensions that people have around life insurance. Term Insurance, despite being the most fundamental and cheapest form of financial protection, still lacks a significant uptake in urban India. There is an urgent need for Indians to understand the true value of protecting one’s family from the uncertainties of life. We hope the results of this study, act as a wake-up call for consumers and the industry at large and help increase financial protection in the country.”
Informal sector workers can join PMSYM pension scheme from Feb 15
The monthly contribution by the worker joining the scheme would be Rs 55, with matching contributions from the government. The contributions would rise at higher age. The worker joining the scheme at the age of 40 years would contribute Rs 200, while workers at the age of 29 years would pay Rs 100. The scheme will cover unorganised workers who are working or engaged as home based workers, street vendors, mid-day meal workers, head loaders, brick kiln workers, cobblers, rag pickers, domestic workers, washer men, rickshaw pullers, landless labourers, agricultural workers, construction workers, among others. < ..
Goyal’s new pension scheme pose risk for the Atal Pension Yojana
“The new pension scheme has the government as a 50 per cent co-contributor which is not there in the APY. So, people will prefer the new pension scheme to APY. Moreover, PFRDA had requested the government to increase the age limit under APY to 50 years from 40 years, which didn’t happen. So, we will have to revise the APY target,’’ said Contractor.
Insurance firms expect Interim Budget proposals to boost penetration
For the insurance industry, the schemes aimed at boosting farmers’ income and reducing tax outgoes for the middle-class will encourage consumption, while the plan to develop 1 lakh digital villages will boost digital infrastructure
Insurers’ Wish-List for the Budget 2019-20
“We are hoping for positive tax benefits in the home insurance area as in the last year we have seen some major calamities and home insurance has certainly gained importance. We are also hoping for some regulatory framework in the healthcare/pharma industries to make insurance a reality for all in India”Rikhil Shah, Chief Financial Officer, SBI General Insurance
Why many Americans will never be able to retire
Some see this as a positive trend, because it adds to the economy. But others rightfully view it with trepidation, because there’s the distinct possibility that many of these elderly people just can’t afford to retire. Whether their nest eggs were wiped out in the housing crash, or they just didn’t save enough, or whether their kids don’t make enough money to support them, the decline of retirement seems like an ominous development.
FinMin looking at suggestions of raising upper age limit for Atal Pension Yojana: Rajiv Kumar
APY is guaranteed pension scheme announced by the government on May 9, 2015. The scheme is focused on the unorganised sector workers which constitute more than 85 per cent of the workforce.
Pension Trustees seek corporate disclosure of Sexual Harassment Costs, Policies
“We don’t see how it could possibly be accretive to corporate value to have a culture that allows for sexual harassment in the workplace,” said Priya Mathur, the departing president of the $345 billion California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund.Companies are losing customers, paying settlements and higher insurance costs and being distracted “from their core strategies because they have to deal with this.”
There may be no tax on income up to ₹500,000
Budget may also reinstate tax-free status for medical expenses and transport allowance, providing some relief to the section already under strain since demonetisation
EPFO subscribers may be allowed to invest more in equity markets in 2019
“By way of supplementing the employer’s share of contribution at the rate of 12 per cent, a good number of approximately 9 million new employees are extended the benefit of social security net through the EPFO,”