Payment of Pensions
Payment of Pensions
NOTICE FOR PENSIONERS - IMPORTANT
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please note that we are forwarding original Life Certificate and Soft Copy (via email) of your Life Certificate to the Pensions Department as they requested. When you are sending your documents next time, please send us, one side A4 size photocopies’ in order to scan your documents.
According to the instruction given by the Department of Pensions ( Mention in top of the Life Certificate) we are accept Copies of National Identity Cards, Sri Lankan Passport, Canadian Passport only. If you do not have any of these documents only accept other kind of identities. Please do not send any other supporting documents with your Life Certificates. When you are sending your Life Certificate please make sure it is certified by your family doctor or any other professional who has a stamp. If not we will return your documents to you.
Pensions Division
Sri Lanka High Commission
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IMPORTANT NOTICE Obtaining of Life Certificates for Foreign Pensioners - 2018 Read in Sinhala and Tamil (in PDF format) It has been scheduled to conduct the obtaining of life certificates for foreign pensioners for the year 2018 from 01.12.2017 to 31.03.2018. Foreign pensioners should take action to submit their life certificates only through the Foreign Pension Division of the Department of Pensions or a Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post in their country of residence. 02. Specimen form of “Life Certificate 2018” should be downloaded from the www.pensions.lk website. The duly filled specimen form should be submitted to the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post or the Foreign Pensions Division by the pensioner him/herself along with the confirmation of their identity by producing a valid passport. 03. Life certificates which are attested only by the Director General of Pensions/Director, Pensions/Assistant Director (Pensions) /authorized officers in a Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission/Post or divisional head (Foreign Pensions) are accepted as valid life certificates. 04. Pensioners who are not able to visit a Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post due to old age or ill health, should hand over their life certificates certified by a doctor who is treating him/her to the Department of Pensions through the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post. 05. Obtained life certificates through the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post should be scanned the Sri Lanka Diplomatic Mission or Post and entered into the data system of the Department of Pensions using the application.pensions.gov.lk/foreignmenu. The acceptance/rejection would be done after an inspection by the Department of Pensions. 06. Life certificates of those foreign pensioners who submitted their life certificates to the Foreign Pension Division of the Department of Pensions will be entered into the data system directly after the attestation of the Director General of Pensions/Director (Pensions) /Assistant Director (Pensions) or Divisional Head (Foreign Pensions). Notifying to pensioners on the life certificates entered into the data system and life certificates rejected due to incomplete information provided will be done through the Department website from 01.04.2018 to 30.04.2018. 07. Pensioners who are abroad for less than three (03) years and obtain their pensions via the Divisional Secretaries should submit their life certificates through their Divisional Secretaries. 08. Action will be taken to suspend pension payments temporarily from May 2018 of pensioners who have not submitted their life certificates by 31.03.2018. A relief period to re-submit the life certificates will be granted from 01.04.2018 to 30.04.2018 to pensioners who had already submitted their life certificates but the certificates were rejected due to incomplete information. Action will be taken to suspend the pension payments temporarily from May 2018 to those pensioners who have not submitted their life certificates during the stipulated period. Arrears of pension payments on behalf of pensioners who have not submitted life certificates would be notified later. 09. Your cooperation in the submission of life certificates for the year 2018 would be highly appreciated, as the pension payment process is depended on the confirmation of the identity of the pensioners.
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Suspension of monthly pensions for pensioners who had not submitted the life certificates for the year 2017 This High Commission has been informed by the Assistant Director/ Foreign Pensions of the Department of Pension that the Department of Pensions has decided to suspend the monthly pension payment of all overseas pensioners who had not submitted the duly filled life certificate during the period between 1st December 2016 to 31st of March 2017. |
All pensioners living outside Toronto and Greater Toronto Area should process their Data Entry forms through the High Commission in Ottawa.
Foreign Pension Applications/Data Entry Forms
| New Circular dated 01/2018 -Payment of pension to Sri Lankan pensioners resident abroad | ||||||
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Amended Pension Circular 16/2009 of 06.04.2010 (Data Entry Forms] |
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Date for Payment of Pensions |
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Life Certificate for Pensioners |
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| Transfer of pension of overseas pensioners to another account | Bank of Ceylon | |||||
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People's Bank | |||||