Death claim procedure in case of National Savings Certificates
The following post elucidates the claim procedure of NSCs where Nomination is registered or in the event of death of nominee of the deceased certificate holder, or when there is no nomination, interest payment clauses, and continuation of the certificate holder. There are 3 types of saving certificates issued by the Postal Department. (1) A…
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Present PPF rules for NRIs
As per the new rules set in 2018, a person who became NRI can continue his/her PPF account that he/she had opened while in India. However, one cannot open a new PPF account after becoming an NRI. Earlier to the above rule, (in terms of amended PF rule 2017), a person who becomes an NRI…
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Death claim settlement process of SCSS account
When the first holder in the SCSS (Senior Citizen Savings Scheme) account dies, the second holder (spouse) is allowed to continue the account even when he/she does not meet the age criteria of 60 years as required under the rules. Similarly, when the spouse is the sole nominee, he/she is allowed to continue the account…
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How nominee/legal heirs can claim money from Post Office deposits?
Claim procedure on death of the depositors of Small Savings Schemes like SB, RD, TD, MIS, etc. To make the process of claiming money from the various post office small savings schemes such as Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (PO-MIS), Post Office Recurring Deposit, Term Deposits, and claim procedures of Public Provident Fund (PPF), National…
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Government reverses yesterday’s order regarding huge cut on interest rates of small savings schemes from April.
Edited and republished on April 1,2021 Last evening, in a massive blow to middle-class depositors, on the last day of the financial year, the government had announced a huge cut in interest rates of small savings scheme such as PPF, NSC and other post office deposits up to110 basis point for the first quarter of…
Who is a beneficial nominee for an insurance policy?
May be all of us know the meaning of a nominee of the life insurance policy. Nominees of insurance policies are merely designated trustees acting as receivers of insurance proceeds on behalf of the policyholder’s legal heirs. In the other words, while the insurance company has to hand over the death benefit to the nominee,…
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