Raising the minimum pension for the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) has been a key request from EPS pensioners and Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) members for quite some time. On August 5, 2026, the EPS 95 National Agitation Committee, an organisation representing a large number of EPS pensioners from across the country, staged a protest in New Delhi. They urged the central government to increase the minimum EPS pension from Rs 1,000, to Rs 7,500, arguing that the current amount is not enough to meet the rising cost of living.
The issue of increasing the minimum EPS pension was also raised in Lok Sabha today (Monday, August 10, 2026), when Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Member of Parliament (MP), asked whether the government plans to raise the minimum EPS-95 pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 7,500.
