TOI discovered that pensions of over 53,000 disabled, elderly and widows in Uttarakhand had been stopped since October 2016 as they had not submitted Aadhaar details. According to documents accessed by this paper, out of 59,081 people who draw the disability pension in Uttarakhand, 5,424 have not got a single penny since October 2016. Same is the case for 36,060 of the state’s 4.2 lakh old-age pension beneficiaries, and 12,047 of the 1.48 lakh widows eligible for pension.
— source timesofindia.indiatimes.com 2017-12-17