Government employees switching to the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) can hope to see a significant increase in their pension, as the government’s contribution is set to increase from 14% to 18.5%.

A calculation done by the UTI Pension fund shows that the increase will be around 19% for those who join on a monthly salary of Rs 50,000 and see an annual rise of 3% with their corpus seeing a compounded annual growth of 8% – lower than what all the three fund managers have offered.
(see table below).

FUNDS FOR FUTURE

Details

  • NPS vs UPS (Figures in ₹)
    • Basic pay at 60 years for someone starting at ₹ 50,000 a month, assuming a 3% annual increase.
    • NPS: Govt contribution at 14% of pay, employees at 10%.
    • UPS: Govt contribution at 18.5% of pay, employees at 10%.
    • Fund growth is assumed at 8% CAGR.
    • Annuity return assumed at 6%.

Source: UTI Pension Fund

The corpus will probably be bigger… 
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