Budget 2018 - Benefits for Senior citizens

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There will be no TDS on the interest income of up to Rs.50,000. Earlier, this limit was Rs. 10,000.

Senior citizens can now claim deduction of up to Rs.50,000 on health insurance premium. This has been raised from Rs.30,000.

For critical illness, senior citizens can claim deduction of up to Rs.1 lakh towards medical expenditure.

In addition, the government has proposed to extend the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana to March 2020 and increase the limit of investment from Rs.7.5 lakh to Rs.15 lakh. This policy gives assured return of 8% to senior citizens.

What's more, the budget has also ended the current practice of tax deduction at source (TDS) on interest income earned by senior citizens. Currently, TDS is deducted on deposits at the rate of 10%. In cases where tax liability is more than the TDS, the account holder will have to pay the difference.

Towards this, the Finance Bill will insert a new section, 80TTB, in the Income-Tax Act relating to this deduction of interest on deposits made by senior citizens. Interest income from a deposit with a bank, co-operative bank or post office will come under this section.

What does it mean for a senior citizen? "Two things—increase in exemption limit and TDS—are relevant moves for senior citizens. If you take the current interest rate, which is in the 7-7.5% per annum on bank FDs, if you have Rs7.5 lakh-Rs8 lakh as FD then you get this benefit

Usually senior citizens prefer fixed deposits to market-linked products. The measure is targeted at only a small portion of the citizens. It is good that it is also targeted at the upper middle-class segment because you need to have a deposit of Rs7.5 lakh in the account to get this benefit

The amendment will take effect from 1 April 2019

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