874 ‘refuse’ Covid aid in K’taka, 69 families have no legal heir left
Chethan.Kumar@timesgroup.com
Bengaluru:29.12.2021
While hundreds of families which have lost a member to Covid-19 have received compensation from the Union and state governments, 874 families from across Karnataka have refused to accept the aid saying they do not need any financial assistance.
Bengaluru, with 551, has the most number of such families. There are 69 cases — 32 from Bengaluru — where all members of the family have died leaving no legal heirs to claim compensation. The government is unable to trace nearly 1,200 families, most of whom (910) are from Bengaluru. “These are cases where authorities were given improper or incomplete addresses and wrong phone numbers,” the official said.
Satish Kumar, director (pensions), said the exercise to get families onboard to avail compensation brought to the fore families that did not want the aid. This means these families were entitled to Rs 50,000 per death and their refusal saves the Centre at least Rs 4.4 crore.
There are 420 cases where families are living in other states. In all, there are 2,545 cases that the government will be unable to pay compensations to. And, 1,674 of them are from Bengaluru.
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