Jeevan Pramaan, also known as the Digital Life Certificate, is a digital service that uses biometrics to help pensioners. It simplifies the pension process for pensioners of central and state governments, as well as other government bodies. This service allows pensioners to submit their life certificates online, anytime and from anywhere.

Since November 2021, pensioners can submit their Digital Life Certificate via face authentication using an Android smartphone. This digital process has empowered pensioners, eliminating the need to visit banks or service centers for submission.

In the past, pensioners were required to visit their pension-disbursing agencies in person every year to submit their life certificates, which was often a tedious and time-consuming task. The Jeevan Pramaan initiative solves this issue by digitising the process of obtaining a life certificate.

When To Submit Life Certificate For Pension?

The certificate must be produced every year in November to authorised pension disbursing providers like banks and post offices, following which the pensions are credited regularly to their accounts.

From Where To Get A Jeevan Pramaan (Digital Life Certificate)

You can obtain a Life Certificate in any of the following ways;

• Various Citizen Service Centre (CSC ) located across India
• Pensioners can visit the Jeevan Pramaan Portal and generate as well as submit their life certificate with the use of fingerprints using a fingerprint reader.
• They can also download the Jeevan Pramaan mobile app and provide their life certificate through the app.
• Office of Pension Disbursing Agencies (PDA) such as Post Office, Banks, Treasury etc.
• It can also be generated from home/any location on a laptop/mobile.Aadhaar number or VID is a must for generating/obtaining the Digital Life Certificate.
• Pensioners can also access ‘Doorstep Banking’ which is available at a few public sector banks across the country. This service is available for senior citizens above the age of 70 or those with mobility issues to help them submit their certificates.
• Pensioners can also use face authentication technology to submit their certificates with the use of an Android smartphone. For this, they need to download the Aadhaar Face RD app from the Google Play Store and the Jeevan Pramaan application.
• Life certificates can be also submitted through the India Post Payments Bank’s ‘Doorstep Service for Submission of Digital Life Certificate by Postman’ initiative. This service can be used by downloading the “Postinfo APP” from the Google Play store.

Once the life certificate is submitted, it is automatically uploaded to the database, and the pensioner’s pension is credited without any delay.

The Modi government has strongly promoted this initiative, launching two special campaigns in 2022 and 2023 to expand its use.

The first campaign successfully included 35 lakh central government pensioners, while the second added another 45.46 lakh to the initiative.

A third month-long campaign will be launched on November 1 this year, aiming to increase the adoption of face authentication and other digital life certificate submission methods, to reach all pensioners.