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When Expanding a Safety Net Means Ignoring Who's Already Fallen Through It

The Union Cabinet approved raising the EPFO's mandatory wage-coverage ceiling from ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 on September 16, 2026, expected to bring roughly 51 lakh additional workers into the Employees' Pension Scheme. The editorial welcomes the move but flags that the government has left the EPS minimum pension frozen at ₹1,000 since September 2014, with no inflation indexation, despite the Parliamentary Standing Committee on…