Life Certificate for Pensioners 2025: Know how to submit online, check status, last date | Step-by-step guide

Life Certificate download: Documents required for getting life certificate

Before your visit to your bank or post office, make sure you have the following documents ready. Here’s a handy checklist

• Aadhaar Number
• Mobile Number
• Pension Payment Order (PPO) Number
• Pension Account number
• Bank details

You will also need to provide your biometrics, such as an iris or a fingerprint scan.

Life Certificate submission process: How to get life certificate online?

There are at least a couple of ways of getting your life certificate from the comfort of your home. The best part if you don’t have to visit the bank branch or post office to generate or present the life certificate document. The document is automatically available to your pension disbursing agency.

Method #1

• Using your mobile phone or laptop, which is connected to a biometric device, you need to open the government portal of Jeevan Pramaan or Digital Life Certificate: jeevanpramaan.gov.in
• Once here, click on ‘Get a Certificate’
• It will give you an option to choose PC or mobile.
• Once you click on it, you can download the application.
• Here, you need to fill in the details like the Aadhaar and the PPO number.
• Put in the biometric data (scan fingerprint or iris).
• Once verified, your digital life certificate will be stored as part of the Life Certificate Depository.
• The pension disbursing agency, your bank or post office, can easily access it without you having to once leave the comfort of your home.

Method #2

• Download and open the UMANG app. This is a platform for Indian Citizens to access government services digitally, pertaining to Central and local government bodies.
• Choose ‘Jeevan Pramaan’ and click on Generate Life Certificate.
• You need to fill in your details (such as Aadhaar and PPO number) and do biometric verification.
• Voila, the app will then create the life certificate and store it for use by your pension disbursing authority.

Life Certificate form: What is Jeevan Pramaan or Digital Life Certificate

Jeevan Pramaan or Digital Life Certificate is a biometric-enabled Aadhaar-based Digital Life Certificate for pensioners. No two life certificates can be same because they use the information specific to you, such as your Aadhaar number and biometric details.

Life certificate status: How to find Digital Life Certificate status

Once your Jeevan Pramaan id is generated, you can download the Digital Life Certificate by clicking on https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in/ppouser/login.

This will let you check the status of your Digital Life Certificate.

Life Certificate 2025 last date: Can I get life certificate offline?

Please note that even as the government has launched digital alternatives for getting your life certificate, they are just that: alternatives. The old way you used to get life certificates — by visiting your bank branch or the post office building — hasn’t gone anywhere. You can still do that, rather than uploading the details to the Jeevan Pramaan portal or the UMANG app.

Life Certificate submission SBI: How to get life certificate offline?

If you don’t want to miss the old charm of visiting the bank branch for a day out or are not comfortable with the digital methods, you can follow these steps:

To get your life certificate offline, you need to visit your nearest bank branch, post office or Citizen Service Centre (CSC).

You need to carry all necessary documents, mentioned above, such as your Aadhaar and the PPO.

Once you manually fill in the life certificate form and submit it, the staff will cross-check and verify the information.

Once satisfied, they will record the submission, and you are free for a year.

Life certificate for pensioners: How to find your nearest CSC

Visit the Jeevan Pramaan website https://jeevanpramaan.gov.in and search the nearest CSC by clicking on ‘Locate a Centre’.

Or you can text the following message to 7738299899 : “JPL” followed by a space and then your pin-code. e.g. JPL 482003 and send it to 7738299899.