Disability Pension and UDID Status — citizen guide 2026

If you only have 2 minutes: open the NSAP pension-payment search and the UDID tracker, write down the application or sanction number, then draft RTI with the AI RTI Drafter if credit or the card has not moved. Read The RTI Playbook for the 30-day clock.

This page is not about defence or civil-service disability pension. Those sit with PCDA / the service department. For NSAP restoration wording see also RTI for NSAP pension.

The Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS) is one sub-scheme of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP), administered by the Ministry of Rural Development and implemented by States and Union Territories. It is a monthly DBT pension for eligible persons with severe or multiple disability who belong to a BPL household.

The Unique Disability ID (UDID / Swavlamban card) is the national disability identity card and e-certificate issued through swavlambancard.gov.in by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD). It is not the pension itself. Many state welfare desks now ask for it, but IGNDPS eligibility is still the NSAP test, not the 40 per cent UDID benchmark.

• NSAP was launched on 15 August 1995 and is aligned with Constitution Article 41. The live programme site of MoRD is nsap.dord.gov.in (older printed URLs often say nsap.nic.in).
• IGNDPS eligibility and central share, as stated on nsap.dord.gov.in and restated by the Ministry in Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 3745 answered on 12 August 2025, and in CAG Report No. 10 of 2023 (Table 3.3):
  • BPL person, 18 years and above
  • Severe or multiple disability — 80 per cent and above
  • Central assistance ₹300 a month (ages 18–79) and ₹500 a month (80 years and above)
• States are encouraged to top up. The same Lok Sabha reply said state top-ups then ranged from ₹200 to ₹5,700 a month. Your credit is central share plus whatever your state actually pays. Check the state social-welfare / e-District notice, not a neighbour's amount.
• Coverage is not universal. The Ministry told the Lok Sabha that IGNDPS does not have universal coverage; States may cover additional persons from their own funds.
• UDID / RPwD: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, §2® defines a person with benchmark disability as not less than 40 per cent of a specified disability. That 40 per cent bar opens many RPwD entitlements. It is not the 80 per cent IGNDPS test. CAG noted that some States used 40 per cent for their own disability pension; that is a state rule, not the central IGNDPS guideline.
• RTI: Pension files sit with the district implementing officer (usually District Social Welfare Officer; in some States rural development or a state pension society). UDID assessment files sit with the CMO / Medical Board. File under §6(1). Reply is due in 30 days under §7(1). First appeal §19(1). Transfer §6(3).

Step 1 — Track the UDID / Swavlamban card

1. Go to swavlambancard.gov.in and open Track Your Application.
2. Official FAQ: enter Enrolment / UDID / Request number / mobile / Aadhaar, then submit. Date of birth and captcha are asked on the login path.
3. If the card is generated, download the e-Disability Certificate and e-UDID from the same portal.
4. DEPwD publishes SOPs on depwd.gov.in for rejection, renewal, re-assessment (RPwD Act §59) and certificates assessed below 40 per cent. Follow those, not an agent.

Step 2 — Track IGNDPS payment on NSAP

1. Open nsap.dord.gov.in.
2. Pension payment detail of Beneficiary is at ledgerHistroy.do (the menu label is Track Pension Payment Status). Search uses Sanction Order / Application No, State, District and other fields the form shows that day.
3. Track Registration / Application Status is at applicationTrack1.do.
4. MoRD also publishes the SAMBAL NSAP-PPS mobile app from the same site for scheme details and tracking. Use it only if your State is actually on NSAP-PPS. Many States run their own pension MIS / e-District / PFMS credit.

Step 3 — Use the State surface as well

There is no single national form that sanctions IGNDPS in every district. Identification and sanction are State work (panchayat / municipal / District Social Welfare / e-District). If NSAP search is blank, check:

• your State social-welfare or e-District portal
• pfms.nic.in Know Your Payments for a DBT that already left the treasury
• the bank passbook / SMS for the last credit

1. Fix Aadhaar seeding first if the bank returned a DBT.
2. For a stuck UDID, take the enrolment number to the CMO / Medical Authority named on the portal.
3. For a stuck or stopped pension, go to the District Social Welfare Officer (or the rural-development / pension-society officer your State actually uses).
4. Then file RTI. Fee is the amount in your state RTI fee table. BPL applicants can claim the §7(5) exemption with proof.

Generate a filled draft with the AI RTI Drafter. Track 30 days with the Timeline Tracker. If the PIO is silent, use the First Appeal Builder.

To
The Public Information Officer
Office of the District Social Welfare Officer / Chief Medical Officer
[District, State]

Subject: Information under Section 6(1) of the RTI Act, 2005 — IGNDPS / UDID file [NUMBER]

I am a citizen of India. Name: [NAME]. UDID / enrolment number: [NUMBER]. Pension sanction / application number: [NUMBER].

1. Current status of my UDID application and / or IGNDPS pension file, with the date the file was received.
2. Name, designation and sitting of the official with whom the file is pending, and from which date.
3. For UDID: date of Medical Board assessment, if any, or the reason no date has been given.
4. For pension: last three months of recorded DBT / sanction status, and the reason any month was not credited.
5. Certified copies of the noting / order sheet on my file.
6. If any part is held by another public authority, transfer that part under Section 6(3) and inform me.

Please provide the information within 30 days under Section 7(1). If denied, state the clause and inform me of the first-appeal right under Section 19(1).

[Name, address, mobile]

• There is no central agent fee to “speed up” IGNDPS or UDID.
• Never share an OTP. DEPwD has published advisories on fraudulent UDID cards — use only swavlambancard.gov.in.
• Do not treat a 40 per cent UDID as automatic IGNDPS eligibility. Central IGNDPS is 80 per cent severe / multiple disability plus BPL, unless your State scheme says otherwise in writing.
• Defence disability pension is a different law. Do not file this RTI with PCDA if your case is NSAP.

Start at NSAP pension payment detail with the sanction or application number. Also check your State social-welfare / e-District site and the bank credit. NSAP-PPS does not list every State the same way.

Open Track Your Application and enter enrolment / UDID / request number, mobile or Aadhaar, as the form asks.

The central share, confirmed by nsap.dord.gov.in, CAG Report No. 10 of 2023 and Lok Sabha reply 3745 of 12 August 2025, is ₹300 a month (18–79) and ₹500 a month (80 and above). States add a top-up. Confirm your state figure on the state portal or passbook.

UDID / RPwD benchmark disability is 40 per cent under §2®. IGNDPS central guidelines use 80 per cent severe or multiple disability plus BPL. A State may run a separate pension at a lower percentage from its own funds — read that State's rule.

Failed DBT, dormant account, or Aadhaar not seeded are common. Fix the bank first. Then RTI the welfare office for the last payment return reason.

Yes. File under §6(1) with the CMO / Medical Authority. They must reply in 30 days under §7(1).

File a first appeal under §19(1) with the First Appellate Authority in the same office. Use the First Appeal Builder.

No. NSAP is the central scheme dashboard. Sanction and extra State pension live on State welfare / e-District systems. Ignore ads that sell a “central disability pension card”.

1. Track UDID and screenshot the status.
2. Run NSAP payment search with your sanction / application number.
3. Check the last bank credit.
4. If either file is past the printed deadline, photograph the acknowledgement and draft the RTI above.

• How to apply for disability pension
• RTI if NSAP pension has stopped
• Old-age pension status IGNOAPS
• Widow pension status IGNWPS
• Defence disability pension arrears
• AI RTI Drafter
• The RTI Playbook
• RTI Act, 2005

• NSAP, Ministry of Rural Development — nsap.dord.gov.in (About Us: IGNDPS ₹300 / ₹500)
• NSAP pension payment search — ledgerHistroy.do
• NSAP application tracker — applicationTrack1.do
• Lok Sabha Unstarred Question 3745, answered 12 August 2025 — IGNDPS eligibility and central rates
• CAG Report No. 10 of 2023, Performance Audit of NSAP, Table 3.3
• UDID / Swavlamban — swavlambancard.gov.in
• Track UDID — swavlambancard.gov.in/track-your-application
• DEPwD UDID page — depwd.gov.in/en/unique-disability-id-udid/
• RPwD Act, 2016, §2® — indiacode.nic.in
• RTI Act, 2005 — §6(1), §6(3), §7(1), §19(1)

Reviewed on 20 August 2026 by Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak. Always confirm the live status on the official NSAP and UDID portals.