Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)’s Smart Pension Scheme is a special retirement plan, which is designed to provide people with a financially secure future. It is a single premium plan, in which you have to invest only once and after that you keep getting a regular pension throughout life. This scheme is suitable for all sections and ensures stable income after retirement. It can also be opened in a joint account. In a joint account, after the death of one person, the other person gets the benefit of a pension for life.
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All schemes have prescribed eligibility, similarly, to avail the benefits of this scheme, your age should be from a minimum of 18 years to a maximum of 65-100 years. Any person, whether employed, self-employed, or retired, can invest in this scheme.
The beneficiary of the scheme can take pension on a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly basis. Annuity benefits are also given under this scheme. After the policyholders, the nominee will be given the benefit of this scheme.
If you are contributing to this scheme, you can apply online from the official website of LIC (www.licindia.in) or you can also do it through LIC agent, POSP-Life Insurance or Common Public Service Center.
In this scheme, you can get a minimum pension of Rs 1000, if you want to get pension every three months then you can get Rs 3000, if you want to get pension every six months then you can get Rs 6000 and if you want to get pension every year then you can get a minimum pension of Rs 12000.
If you are contributing to this scheme, you can apply online from the official website of LIC (www.licindia.in) or you can also do it through LIC agent, POSP-Life Insurance or Common Public Service Center.
In this scheme, you can get a minimum pension of Rs 1000, if you want to get pension every three months then you can get Rs 3000, if you want to get pension every six months then you can get Rs 6000 and if you want to get pension every year then you can get a minimum pension of Rs 12000.