What is Jeevan Pramaan Patra and How To Download It?

The Jeevan Pramaan Patra or Digital Life Certificate can be defined as a biometric-enabled digital certificate for pensioners. This digital certificate can be used as proof of life for the pensioner i.e. to prove that the pensioner is alive so that he/she can receive the due pension in their designated bank account. Currently, very pensioner or those receiving family pension after having worked for the Central Government, State Government or any other government/quasi-government organization is eligible to avail the benefits of this facility.

Proir to introduction of this biometric-enabled life certificate, pensioners and/or family members of the pensioners had to physically visit the office of the pension disbursing agency/designated office for issue and submit of the proof of life. However, this was difficult for pensioners with health problems that restrict travel and/or movement. Introduction of of the biometric-enabled digital Jeevan Pramaan certificate is expected to help elderly individuals receiving various types of pension to a great extent. As per current rules, Jeevan Pramaan Patra dgital life certificate has to submitted once a year before the 30th of November annually.

You can generate a Jivan Pramanpatra online and offline. To do it offline, you would be required to visit your nearest Jeevan Pramaan Centre and submit the required documents to get the process of registration started.

Alternatively, you can also register for Jeevan Praman Patra online by downloading the mobile application. The application for a digital life certificate can be downloaded from the official Jeevan Pramaan Patra website .[AC(DC-E1]

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The digital life certificate or Jeevan Pramaan offers a lot of benefits to the pensioner over the earlier offline process. Here are the key ones:

The pensioner is required to provide the following documents at the time of registering for the digital Jeevan Pramaan patra:

• Name, Address, email id and other demographic information
• Aadhaar Number
• Mobile Number registered with UIDAI and pension disbursing authority
• Applicable pension related information such as PPO (Pension Payment Order) Number , Bank details, Pension Account number, Name of Pension Sanctioning Authority, Pension Disbursing Authority, etc.
• A pensioner is also required to provide biometrics of either the iris/fingerprint or face id-based verification.

Under current rules, pensioners are eligible to get digital Jeevan Pramaan only if they are retired from service and their pension sanctioning authority (PSA) has been onboarded with the Jevaan Pramaan portal.

Currently a digital life certificate cannot be submitted if the pensioner is re-employed or has remarried. Such individuals are required to submit the life certificate in the traditional way by physically visiting the Pension Dusbursing Authority office or other representative office.