Bandaru Dattatreya : EPF pensioners to get medical benefits

Bandaru Dattatreya : EPF pensioners to get medical benefits

New Delhi: Nearly 58 lakh people Employees Provident Fund (EPF) pensioners will now get medical benefits, labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya said in the Lok Sabha on Friday.

"Regarding the pensioners, we are going to give the pensioners benefit under the ESIC (Employees State Insurance Corporation) to those who are retired pensioners. We will be providing all medical services to the retired pensioners. 58 lakh pensioners will be benefited," he said.

Dattatreya was replying to a debate on a private member's resolution moved by Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) member N.K. Premachandran on 'Steps To Ensure Welfare of Employees Provident Fund Pensioners'.