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Esik pension for the next of 35 covid victims

Bhubaneswar: Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) under the Ministry of Manpower and Employment has provided a retirement to the next KIN of 35 ESIC receivers, who have died of Covid in Odisha.
It has decided to provide assistance to ESI beneficiaries affected by Covid by launching the Covid-19 assistance scheme and expanding the Dateline of Atal Beemit Vakti Kalyan Yojana (Abvky).
Under the Covid-19 assistance scheme, Esic will pay 90% of the monthly salary of employees for couples who die to death or get married again.
If the partner does not live, the son will benefit until he reaches the age of 25 years and girls get married.
Suppose the recipient gets an income of Rs 20,000 per month.
After death because Covid, then from KIN from the deceased it will get Rs 18,000 per month as a retirement.
This scheme has been launched with a retrospective effect on March 24, 2020.
It will continue until March 23, 2022, said the Regional Esic Office, Odisha Director, Parthasarathy Panda.
He said so far they have received 60 applications from Odisha under this scheme.
“We have paid retirement in 35 cases and 25 remaining cases under supervision.
We begged the beneficiaries who qualified to propose this pension benefit.
They need to show a positive Covid report along with the certificate of death beneficiary,” said Panda.
Under Abvky Extended schemes, Esic will provide 50% of the monthly wages for three months for people who insured ESI who lost their jobs during a pandemic.
This scheme was launched by Esic on July 1, 2018, but has been extended until 2022.
If he gets a job after a month or two months, he will not be entitled to financial compensation under the scheme after that.
He has the right to only compensate for three months throughout his life, said Panda.
This ESI scheme applies to all factories and industries involving 10 or more people.
Under the scheme, wages that draw wages to RS 21,000 per month have the right to benefit.
We have around 7.41 beneficiaries of Lakh ESI in Odisha, he added.
Panda said there were five ESI / ESIC hospital schemes, 41 Disposaria ESI and 24 ESIC branch offices in Odisha.
Beneficiaries can benefit from these hospital facilities, he added.

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