Haryana Divyang Person Pension

What is the Haryana Divyang Person Pension?

Haryana Divyang Person Pension is a state-funded monthly pension for residents living with a substantial disability, run by the Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment under the SEWA Department. The department's current official naming uses "Divyang"; older paperwork and many search queries still use "handicapped pension" or "viklang pension", and all three refer to the same benefit.

According to the Directorate of Social Justice and Empowerment, the pension rate is Rs 3,200 per month with effect from 1 November 2025, raised from Rs 3,000. The scheme has been running since 1981-82, when the rate was Rs 50 a month, and has been revised upward repeatedly across four decades. Payment is made by Direct Benefit Transfer into the beneficiary's own bank account, so no cash is handled at any office.

Departmental figures for 2023-24 record roughly 1.86 lakh beneficiaries against a budget of about Rs 574 crore, which makes the disability pension the third-largest of Haryana's fifteen social security pension schemes after the old-age and widow pensions.

What the scheme is designed to do

• Provide a predictable monthly income floor to persons whose disability limits their earning capacity.
• Deliver the money through DBT rather than through intermediaries.
• Use the Parivar Pehchan Patra database so eligible persons are identified without repeated document collection.

Who is eligible for the Haryana Divyang person pension?

You can get the pension if all of the following are true:

• You are 18 years of age or older on the date of application.
• You have been residing in Haryana continuously for the 3 years immediately preceding the application.
• You hold a disability certificate showing a disability in the 60 to 100 percent band, issued by a government medical board.
• Your own income from all sources does not exceed the minimum wages for unskilled labour notified by the Haryana Labour Department.

The income test is stricter than most applicants expect and is not a fixed rupee figure. Because it tracks the notified unskilled-labour minimum wage, it moves when that wage is revised. The department also counts accumulated earnings, provident fund receipts and annuities paid by banks or insurance companies as income, so a person drawing a modest annuity can cross the limit without any salary at all.

You cannot apply if:

• You are under 18 years old. Haryana runs a separate financial assistance scheme for non-school-going disabled children, which is where a minor's claim belongs.
• Your certified disability is below 60 percent. A 40 percent certificate is not eligible for this pension even though it qualifies for reservation, concessions and several loan schemes.
• Your personal income exceeds the notified unskilled-labour minimum wage.
• You have not completed 3 years of continuous residence in Haryana.

Disabilities recognised by the Directorate are blindness, low vision, leprosy-cured, hearing impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation and mental illness. The certified percentage decides the case, not the label of the condition.

What documents are required?

Fix the Parivar Pehchan Patra first. Most Haryana pension rejections come from a PPP record that carries a stale income figure or does not carry the disability flag at all. Corrections are made at meraparivar.haryana.gov.in and take their own processing time, so start there rather than after a rejection.

How to apply for the Haryana Divyang person pension online

1. Update your Parivar Pehchan Patra at meraparivar.haryana.gov.in so the disability status and the applicant's annual income are recorded correctly and marked verified.
2. Open the Antyodaya-SARAL portal at saralharyana.gov.in and register with your mobile number and email, or sign in to an existing account.
3. Select Apply for Services and search for the Haryana Divyang pension service of the Social Justice and Empowerment Department.
4. Enter your Family ID, Aadhaar number, disability certificate number and percentage, date of birth, residence details and bank account particulars.
5. Upload the scanned disability certificate, age proof, residence proof and bank passbook page in the file sizes the form specifies.
6. Submit the form and save the Application Reference ID shown on screen and sent by SMS.
7. Wait for verification and sanction by the District Social Welfare Officer, who checks the certificate and the PPP income record before release.

How to apply offline

1. Visit your nearest SARAL Kendra, Common Service Centre or the District Social Welfare Office with the original documents and one photocopy set.
2. Ask the operator to file the Divyang pension application on Antyodaya-SARAL on your behalf; the counters run the same system as the website.
3. Give your OTP or biometric confirmation where asked and collect the printed acknowledgement carrying the Application Reference ID.

Antyodaya-SARAL counters operate at tehsil level as well as district headquarters, which matters for applicants with locomotor disability who cannot travel far.

How much pension is paid and when?

Haryana Divyang Person Pension pays Rs 3,200 per month, effective 1 November 2025. The amount is uniform. The department does not publish a sliding scale for higher disability percentages above the 60 percent threshold, so a person certified at 65 percent and a person certified at 100 percent receive the same allowance. Payment reaches the Aadhaar-seeded bank account monthly once sanction is issued.

The pension is not a one-time grant and needs no annual re-application. It continues while the beneficiary remains eligible, remains resident in Haryana and the disability certificate on record stays valid. Rate revisions apply automatically to existing pensioners, the Rs 200 increase notified in 2025 was paid with retrospective effect from 1 November without any fresh application.

How to check your application and payment status

1. Open saralharyana.gov.in and enter your Application Reference ID in the Track Application Status box on the home page.
2. Or sign in to your SARAL account and open Track Application Status for the full history of the case.
3. For payment queries after sanction, check the bank passbook or statement first, because a sanctioned pension that has not arrived is usually a bank-seeding failure rather than a rejection.

Common reasons for rejection and how to fix them

• Disability certified below 60 percent, the commonest cause. A fresh assessment by the government medical board is the only route; the department cannot relax the threshold.
• PPP income mismatch — the Family ID shows income above the unskilled-wage limit. Correct it through the PPP grievance route before re-applying.
• Disability flag missing from the PPP even though the certificate is valid.
• Residence not established for 3 years, attach a domicile certificate rather than a recent utility bill.
• Expired time-bound disability certificate; renew it and submit the new one; the pension stops on expiry.
• Bank account not Aadhaar-seeded, so the credit fails after sanction.
• Already drawing another state social security pension on the same ground.

Where to complain if the pension is delayed

• Antyodaya-SARAL helpline: 0172-3968400, and the email saral.haryana@gov.in, working 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday.
• District Social Welfare Officer of your district, the sanctioning and verification authority for this pension.
• CM Window, Haryana's central grievance platform, for cases stuck beyond the normal processing period.
• Parivar Pehchan Patra grievance redressal at meraparivar.haryana.gov.in where the problem is a wrong income entry or a missing disability flag.

Applying for the Haryana Divyang person pension is free. No official will ask for a payment, and no agent can guarantee sanction. The case is decided on the certificate, the PPP income record and the residence proof alone.