Chief Minister Specially Abled Samman Pension Scheme(CMSASPS)

Overview

About CMSASPS

This is a monthly social security pension, not study support, and nothing about it turns on a mark sheet or a course. The Jan Soochna portal's state pension card sets the two tests that decide it: disability of 40 per cent or more, at any age, and a household income line of Rs 60,000 a year. The amount has also been moving twice a year since the Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act came into force, so a rate printed on a scheme page is usually a rate that has since been superseded.

The Social Justice and Empowerment Department runs this pension as one of four state pension schemes, alongside the old age, single woman and small and marginal farmer pensions (Jan Soochna Portal, state pension schemes). It is money for daily survival, paid every month for as long as the person stays eligible, and it carries no course requirement, no institution and no age ceiling.

Up to December 2025, the Finance Department recorded 5.90 lakh pensioners under the scheme in 2025-26, at a cost of Rs 719.89 crore (Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26). A caseload that size is not run across a counter, and the department's own procedure reflects it: a large class of applications is sanctioned straight off the Jan Aadhaar record with no officer opening the file (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

Who runs it

Provider

At a glance

Key details

Calendar

Important dates

There is no application window and no last date. The pension is open through the year and applications are taken whenever the person becomes eligible.

The one date that recurs is 1 November, when the annual verification cycle opens for the following calendar year, and the portal keeps that process open after it rather than shutting it (RajSSP standard operating procedure). The two rate revision points, July and January, are set by the Act rather than announced separately each year.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

Disability percentage and residence do the work here. The state pension card published on the Jan Soochna portal admits a specially abled person of any age whose disability is 40 per cent or more, a person naturally of short stature under 3 feet 6 inches, and a person of the third gender, with the annual income limit for this scheme set at Rs 60,000 against Rs 48,000 for the old age and single woman pensions (Jan Soochna Portal, state pension schemes).

Nothing on that card turns on a Below Poverty Line listing, unlike the central disability pension, which admits only people on the Centre's BPL list (Jan Soochna Portal, state pension schemes); the department's rules for this pension treat BPL status as a way in rather than a bar, and count the family for the income test as the applicant's son, spouse and parents (Social Justice and Empowerment Department, pension rules). And "any age" is literal: the Finance Department describes the pension as payable to specially abled persons from birth across all age groups, and records 32 transgender beneficiaries drawing it at present (Rajasthan Economic Review 2025-26).

The definition that governs the entitlement is the central one. The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act, 2023 defines "disabled" for the pension right as a person with benchmark disability under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act, 2023).

Who cannot apply

Exclusions

The scheme record leaves this heading blank, but the department's own rules for the specially abled pension do bar one group by name: a person who lives by begging is outside it (Social Justice and Empowerment Department, pension rules). Past that, the bars are not on entry but on continuation, and the department's help material lists the reasons a running pension is stopped: death, a duplicate pension, the pensioner having gone out of state, remarriage, and other case specific reasons (RajSSP FAQ for pension).

Holding a second state pension is the one to watch. The Act requires the state to notify a process for converging other pension schemes it operates and a mechanism for de-duplication, which is the legal basis for the duplicate cancellation above (The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act, 2023). A person eligible under more than one of the state schemes draws one of them, not both.

Continuation

Renewal conditions

There is no renewal in the study sense, because there is no academic year to renew against. The equivalent obligation is annual verification, and it is the single most common reason a correctly sanctioned pension stops arriving. Every pensioner must get verified once a year, the department may stop payment where it is not done on time, and the window opens on 1 November each year for the coming calendar year and is never closed on the portal (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

Missing it is recoverable. Where payment was stopped only because verification did not happen, the pensioner is paid with arrears once the verification is completed later (RajSSP standard operating procedure). Verification itself asks a short set of eligibility questions on screen, answered yes or no, with no document uploaded.

What you get

Award & benefits

The age bands that scheme pages still print have been replaced by a single rate for the whole scheme, with two higher rates tied to a specific condition rather than to age. These are the rates the Finance Department recorded for 2025-26 up to December 2025.

The rate is not fixed, and that is the part worth planning around. The Act fixes a base rate of one thousand rupees a month and requires the pension to rise fifteen per cent a year on that base, in two instalments, 5 percent in July and 10 percent in January of each financial year from 2024-2025, with no increase allowed until 12 months have passed from the date that individual's pension was sanctioned (The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act, 2023). So a published figure is less wrong than dated, and a pensioner sanctioned last month keeps the older amount until the twelve month bar clears. The rate the department is actually paying at any given moment is the one on the Eligibility Criteria page of the state pension portal at ssp.rajasthan.gov.in.

• For women below 55 years of age and men below 58 years of age: Rs. 750/- per month.
• To women aged 55 years and above, men aged 58 years and above but less than 75 years of age: Rs. 1,000/- per month.
• To the beneficiaries of 75 years and above age ( male and female): Rs. 1,250/- per month.
• To leprosy-free beneficiaries of all ages ( male and female): Rs. 1,500/- per month.

What to prepare

Documents required

The application itself is paperless. The department's procedure states that the online application requires no documents to be handed over separately to any officer, and that neither the documents nor the applicant's own presence is required by the officers handling it (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

What has to exist is data, not paper. The disability category and percentage must already be recorded in the family's Jan Aadhaar record, and where that data has not reached the pension portal, the fix is to link an online disability certificate issued through the UDID and Swavalamban route to Jan Aadhaar. Certificates issued offline in earlier years are not on the Jan Aadhaar portal at all, and the holder has to obtain the online certificate before the pension can read it (RajSSP FAQ for pension).

Step by step

How to apply

Filing happens at any e-Mitra centre or through the RajasthanSocialPension mobile app, using the family's Jan Aadhaar data after the applicant is biometrically verified against the Aadhaar portal (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

Fingerprints are the usual sticking point for this particular group, and there is a route around it. Where a specially abled applicant cannot be verified biometrically, the sanctioning officer can accept the application on the basis of an OTP sent to the mobile number linked to the applicant's Aadhaar, provided the disability category and percentage are recorded in the Jan Aadhaar data. A face recognition option through the mobile app also exists and is free of charge (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

Checking the Pension and the Money Without Visiting Anyone

Two different reports answer two different questions, and mixing them up is why people conclude a pension was never sanctioned. Application progress sits under Pensioner Online Status in the Reports menu of the pension portal, while payments sit under the Pensioner Payment Register, which shows the payments made over the last 12 months. Both are also published on the Jan Soochna portal (RajSSP FAQ for pension). Keep the PPO number issued on sanction: it is the pensioner's handle in the system, the number a sanctioning officer types in to pull that pensioner up (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

How winners are picked

Selection process

Nobody is ranked and nobody is compared. The Act makes the pension an entitlement of every specially abled person who meets the prescribed eligibility (The Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Act, 2023), so the only question is whether the record clears the tests.

The processing rule is unusually specific and worth knowing before you chase anyone. If the applicant has made no amendment to the Jan Aadhaar record in the previous 6 months, the application is sanctioned immediately, on its own, with no human intervention. Otherwise it moves on a clock (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

An officer who lets a post audit lapse carries the liability if the pensioner is later found ineligible, which is why sanctioned files get audited rather than forgotten.

Fine print

Terms & conditions

A pension can be cancelled by the system rather than by a person. Where the data received from the Jan Aadhaar portal makes a pensioner ineligible, the pension is cancelled automatically, and where that happened because the Jan Aadhaar data itself was wrong, the correction has to be made there first (RajSSP standard operating procedure).

Once cancelled, a fresh application is not the remedy and the portal will not accept one. The sanctioning officer has to reopen the case on the basis of eligibility, and the pensioner is then paid arrears from the date of cancellation (RajSSP standard operating procedure). A cancelled pension can be reviewed and reopened even after 90 days, and the outer limit is 36 months from the date of cancellation, after which nothing can be restarted (RajSSP FAQ for pension). Reopening needs the pensioner's biometrics, or an OTP on the Aadhaar linked mobile if biometrics cannot be captured.

Get help

Contact

Questions about a sanctioned pension belong with the sanctioning officer, because that is who holds the file and the power to reopen it (RajSSP standard operating procedure). The department routes a rural applicant to the Development Officer at the panchayat samiti and an urban applicant to the Sub Divisional Officer's office (Social Justice and Empowerment Department, pension rules).

For the portal itself, the Social Justice and Empowerment Department names its nodal officer as the Additional Director (P&P) at Jaipur and publishes a help desk phone line and the address ssp-rj[at]nic[dot]in on the RajSSP portal.

Source

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Frequently asked questions

From the official scheme FAQ (myScheme)

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Disclaimer

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