Kerala Welfare Pension 2026: ₹2,000 a month, district-wise mustering status, eligibility, how to apply, status check

Kerala’s social security (welfare) pensions are run by the Kerala Government through grama panchayats, municipalities and corporations. The old age, widow, disability, unmarried women above 50 and agricultural labour pensions are all shown as ₹2,000 a month on the official portal (18 October 2026). Family annual income must not exceed ₹1 lakh, and you apply at the local body where you permanently live. Pensioners sanctioned before 31 December 2025 must also complete mustering at an Akshaya Centre. The Finance Department has sanctioned the October 2026 pension for 52,09,617 people (order of 24 October 2026). Payment began on 26 October and must be completed by 5 November 2026. Kerala welfare pension mustering status: on the official mustering dashboard of 9 November 2026, 48,92,696 of 52,27,263 social security pensioners (93.6%) had completed mustering and 3,34,567 were still pending. Your district’s figures are in the table below.

What is the Kerala welfare pension and how much does it pay?

Welfare (social security) pensions are monthly payments for people with little income who are old, widowed, disabled, unmarried women above 50 or agricultural labourers. The official portal, welfarepension.lsgkerala.gov.in (titled Sevana Pension), says the running of these pensions was handed to local self-government institutions after the 1993 constitutional amendment. Today the grama panchayat, municipality or corporation where you live accepts applications, sanctions the pension and arranges payment. This guide is for Kerala residents only. Pensions of the welfare fund boards are separate and are not covered here.

In the portal’s criteria table every pension is ₹2,000 a month (seen on 18 October 2026). The portal says the amount is whatever the government fixes from time to time.

Pension	Amount a month
Agricultural labour pension	₹2,000
Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension	₹2,000
Old age pension, above 75 years	₹2,000
Disability pension, disability above 80%	₹2,000
Disability pension (others)	₹2,000
Pension for unmarried women above 50	₹2,000
Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension	₹2,000

The portal also lists a separate Stree Suraksha scheme. The pages read do not show its amount or eligibility, so it is left out.

Who is eligible?

Conditions common to all: family annual income must not exceed ₹1 lakh; you apply at the local body where you permanently live; and you must not draw a social security pension from a different local body. The old age, widow, disability and agricultural labour criteria also say the applicant must be destitute (agathi); the criteria for unmarried women do not use that word.

Pension	Main conditions
Old age	Age 60 or above; permanent resident of Kerala for more than 3 years; not in someone else’s care
Widow	A widow, or a woman who has completed 50 whose husband has been missing or has deserted her for over 7 years; not remarried; 2 years’ continuous residence in Kerala; no age limit stated
Unmarried women	Unmarried and 50 completed; unmarried mothers above 50 can also apply; permanent resident of Kerala
Disability	Disability above 40%; no age limit; medical certificate or Social Security Mission ID card
Agricultural labour	Age 60 or above; 10 years in Kerala; worked 10 years or more as an agricultural labourer under a landowner; member of the Agricultural Workers Welfare Fund; not a plantation worker

For the old age pension, a son above 20 years does not block eligibility if the local body is satisfied he does not support the family.

Who is not eligible?

Under the portal’s criteria, these people are not eligible:

• Income-tax payers.
• Service pensioners and family pensioners (this does not apply to those drawing an ex gratia or NPS pension up to ₹4,000).
• Anyone drawing salary, pension or family pension from the central government or another state government, and those retired from a central or state public sector undertaking who draw its pension.
• Applicants whose own or family name holds more than two acres of land (not applied to Scheduled Tribes).
• Those who own, or whose family owns, a non-taxi vehicle of four or more wheels with an engine above 1000 cc (Ambassador cars excepted).
• Those who own or live in a concrete building above 2,000 sq ft with modern flooring.
• Beggars and inmates of destitute homes.
• Those drawing another social welfare pension (disabled people are exempt); at most two pensions, including EPF, are allowed.
• Remarried women for the widow pension, and married women for the unmarried women’s pension.

What documents are needed?

The portal lists these documents. For every pension: Aadhaar card, electoral card, ration card, income certificate, proof of age, and the bank passbook (only if you choose bank payment). People who draw an EPF pension under ₹4,000 also attach the EPF passbook or a related document.

Extra documents by pension:

• Old age: proof of permanent residence.
• Widow: husband’s death certificate, or a certificate that he has been missing for 7 years or has deserted her (only for those who have completed 50); proof of 2 years’ permanent residence in Kerala; a certificate that you have not remarried.
• Unmarried women: a certificate of not being married.
• Disability: a disability certificate and proof of residence.
• Agricultural labour: discharge certificate from the Agricultural Workers Welfare Fund Board; proof of residence; income certificate attested by the Village Officer.

The widow pension list asks for copies of the Aadhaar card, electoral card, ration card and bank passbook.

How to apply, step by step

As officially described on the portal:

1. Download the form for your pension from the portal’s Application Forms page. There are separate PDFs for agricultural labour, old age, disability, unmarried women above 50, widow and Stree Suraksha. You can also collect a form from the local body office.
2. Fill it in and attach the documents for that pension.
3. Submit it to the Secretary of the grama panchayat, municipality or corporation where you live.
4. The local body must decide within 45 days of receiving it. It is sensible to ask for a receipt; the portal does not describe one.
5. If it is rejected, you can appeal to the District Collector within 30 days of the rejection notice.

The portal gives these start dates:

Pension	Entitlement starts
Old age, unmarried women	From the month the application is approved and digitally signed
Disability, widow	From the 1st of the month after the month of application

How to check your pension status

Open Pension Search on welfarepension.lsgkerala.gov.in and search by pensioner ID, Aadhaar number or account number. The menu also has a Quick Search option; its content was not read for this guide.

The DBT report lets you choose the pension type, year and DBT batch number to see the payment stage. The portal explains the stages:

• Initiated: pensioners’ bill generation and processing at the DBT Cell.
• Transferred to Bank / Post Office / Direct To Home: the pensioners’ list and funds have gone to banks, head post offices or PACS.
• Success / Failed: the payment status given by the account-holding bank, post office or PACS.

Also check whether the money has reached your bank account. If the status shows Failed, or nothing shows at all, ask your panchayat or municipality office.

October 2026 pension: under the Finance Department order G.O.(Rt) No.8132/2026/Fin of 24 October 2026, the October pension goes to 52,09,617 people in total.

Item	Detail
Paid into bank accounts	29,67,142 people
Paid at home (through cooperative societies)	22,42,475 people
State share sanctioned	₹961.64 crore
Central NSAP share	₹24.76 crore (8,46,456 people)
Distribution window	26 October to 5 November 2026

Bank-route pensioners get the money straight into their account; the others are paid in cash at home through primary cooperative societies. If nothing has reached you after 5 November, ask your panchayat or municipality office.

Mustering and other certificates: what to do

Annual mustering. Notices on several grama panchayat websites (lsgkerala.gov.in) say all social security and welfare fund pensioners sanctioned before 31 December 2025 must complete mustering through an Akshaya Centre from 17 July 2026. The end date is 30 September 2026 in some notices and 31 October 2026 in others. Ask your local body or Akshaya Centre which applies. No state-level order could be read; the portal’s mustering orders are scanned images.

The portal’s Mustering Dashboard counts people who completed e-mustering, people unable to e-muster and people who submitted a life certificate. The pages read do not explain how someone who cannot e-muster should submit a life certificate.

Widow and unmarried women’s pensions. The portal shows the time for submitting the not-remarried or not-married certificate as available until 20 May 2022. Those who were 60 on 1 January 2022 need not submit it.

How many pensioners have completed mustering? District-wise figures (9 November 2026)

Short answer: the official mustering dashboard, updated at 12:01 PM on 9 November 2026, shows 48,92,696 of 52,27,263 social security pensioners have completed mustering. 3,34,567 are still pending.

District	Total beneficiaries	Mustering completed	Pending	Share done
Thiruvananthapuram	5,34,537	4,98,748	35,789	93.3%
Kollam	4,23,566	3,95,289	28,277	93.3%
Pathanamthitta	1,99,152	1,84,460	14,692	92.6%
Alappuzha	3,45,559	3,22,014	23,545	93.2%
Kottayam	3,02,764	2,80,175	22,589	92.5%
Idukki	1,75,923	1,61,825	14,098	92.0%
Ernakulam	4,76,280	4,40,983	35,297	92.6%
Thrissur	5,26,181	4,93,086	33,095	93.7%
Palakkad	4,70,465	4,45,888	24,577	94.8%
Malappuram	5,60,661	5,28,838	31,823	94.3%
Kozhikode	4,76,026	4,48,974	27,052	94.3%
Wayanad	1,30,393	1,20,060	10,333	92.1%
Kannur	4,08,090	3,87,785	20,305	95.0%
Kasaragod	1,97,666	1,84,571	13,095	93.4%
Total	52,27,263	48,92,696	3,34,567	93.6%

By pension type (completed / total): old age 28,64,220 / 30,96,809; widow 12,96,249 / 13,59,233; disability 3,75,817 / 3,98,158; agricultural labour 2,75,773 / 2,86,370; unmarried women above 50 80,637 / 86,693.

Including welfare fund board pensioners, the dashboard counts 66,60,261 beneficiaries, of whom 59,57,646 (89.45%) have e-mustered. Welfare board pensioners are furthest behind at 79.68%, against 92.42% in grama panchayats, 91.25% in municipalities and 90.29% in corporations.

E-mustering not possible: 9,124 (grama panchayats), 1,620 (municipalities), 572 (corporations) and 7,350 (welfare boards). The dashboard does not give the reason; ask your local body.

If you are pending: 1) check your status with Pension Search on the portal; 2) visit an Akshaya Centre with your Aadhaar and pension ID; 3) if the pensioner is bedridden, ask the panchayat or municipal office whether home mustering is available. We found no new official deadline on the portal.

The dashboard changes daily; these figures were checked on 9 November 2026. Source: mustering dashboard, welfarepension.lsgkerala.gov.in.

When will the November 2026 welfare pension be paid?

Short answer: as of 9 November 2026 we found no official order or payment date for the November 2026 pension; the Sevana Pension portal’s orders list has nothing new.

The last order we read is for October (G.O.(Rt) No.8132/2026/Fin, 24 October 2026): payment ran from 26 October to 5 November 2026, and any undisbursed amount must be returned by 16 November 2026.

If your October pension did not arrive: check Pension Search, confirm your mustering is done, then complain to the pension section of your local body. Do not trust dates circulating on social media; we will add the date here when the Finance Department issues the order.

Related guides: Kerala Snehapoorvam scheme · Jeevan Pramaan digital life certificate (central and service pensioners) · Kerala PSC notification, 30 October 2026

If something goes wrong: appeals, help and complaints

• No decision after 45 days: ask at the local body Secretary’s office.
• Application rejected: appeal to the District Collector within 30 days of the notice.
• Pension stopped: check whether mustering is done. The portal carries guidelines for restoring wrongly suspended pensions (G.O.(MS) 233/2018, 27 June 2018) and a circular of 2 August 2021 on restoring pensions of people removed from the beneficiary list. Cite them when you ask the local body.
• Aadhaar problem: the portal gives the Aadhaar toll-free helpdesk 1800-4251-1800 (email uidhelpdesk@kerala.gov.in). The DBT Documents page lists Aadhaar enrolment centres.
• DBT problem: DBT Cell phone 0471-2327526, email dbtcell2017@gmail.com. The same page has a manual for registering an Adalath complaint.

No other helpline numbers were found on the portal, so none are given here. Use only the official website welfarepension.lsgkerala.gov.in.

Recent changes, with dates

• 9 November 2026: mustering dashboard shows 48,92,696 of 52,27,263 social security pensioners (93.6%) done, 3,34,567 pending. No order yet for the November pension.
• 24 October 2026: Finance Department order G.O.(Rt) No.8132/2026/Fin sanctioned the October 2026 pension for 52,09,617 people. Distribution runs from 26 October to 5 November; any amount not paid out must be returned by 16 November 2026.
• 17 July 2026: annual mustering through Akshaya Centres opened for pensioners sanctioned before 31 December 2025 (local body notices). The end date is given as 30 September or 31 October 2026.
• 1 August 2023: order extending the annual mustering deadline (G.O.(MS) 118/2023); an earlier order of 28 March 2023 (G.O.(MS) 58/2023) dealt with annual mustering.
• 31 January 2023: clarification that widow and unmarried-above-50 pensioners who did not submit the not-married or not-remarried certificate get pension when they turn 60 (circular 12/2023).
• 1 September 2020: pension raised to ₹1,400 (G.O.(P) 118/2020); 18 February 2019: raised to ₹1,200 (G.O.(MS) 91/2019).

The pages read do not say from which date the ₹2,000 amount applies. Only order titles were read; the order PDFs are scanned images.