# Pensioners serve legal notice to EPFO over higher pension denial 2026-08-17T04:57:45+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Pensioners from BHEL, NLC Limited and Tamil Nadu State Cooperative Bank have served a legal notice to the Central Provident Fund Commissioner over denial of higher pension benefits. Advocate K.M. Vignesh Ram issued the notice, with a copy sent to Union Minister Jitendra Singh. The notice says a Madras High Court order, which directed authorities not to deny Supreme Court's 2022 judgment granting higher pension to EPF members on the basis of trust rules, has not been implemented. Pensioners say contributions were based on their actual salaries and they are entitled to higher pension under the ruling. The notice argues the EPFO is only a trustee of members' funds and the amount cannot be treated as its own money. It calls for the court's directions to be implemented. Many eligible pensioners have died waiting, while others continue to approach courts for the benefit. ## Coverage - english.mathrubhumi.com This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: BHEL, EPFO, Jitendra Singh, Madras High Court, NLC India Limited, Supreme Court of India Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/pensioners-serve-legal-notice-to-epfo-over-higher-pension-denial/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/pensioners-serve-legal-notice-to-epfo-over-higher-pension-denial/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/