Pension income ceiling enhanced to ₹1.20 lakh, set to benefit over 20 lakh people

Deputy Chief Minister G. Parameshwara, during the Karnataka Legislative Assembly at Vidhana Soudha, in Bengaluru on August 19, 2026. In a decision set to provide relief to over 20 lakh beneficiaries, the Karnataka government has decided to continue providing pensions under the Social Security Pension scheme to those with an annual income between ₹32,000 and ₹1.20 lakh.The scheme covers old-age pensions, widow pensions and disability pensions, and the existing income ceiling had been capped at ₹32,000.The decision follows an exercise in which the government extracted data from the Kutumba software, after which 23.14 lakh beneficiaries were flagged as suspicious. Following physical verification through the Sanyojane app, pensions of about 18.06 lakh beneficiaries were stopped as they were ei