........The unclaimed amount includes money payable to a policyholder as death claim or maturity claim, survival benefits, premium due for refund and premium deposited but not adjusted against premium or indemnity claims. Any amount unclaimed beyond six months from the due date for settlement will be displayed on the website. According to the regulator's August 14 circular issued to all insurers, excluding General Insurance Corporation of India, the information regarding unclaimed amount will have to be updated every six months on the insurance company's website.......
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Copied below is an excerpt from my article "Do we need a regulator for 'unclaimed' deposits?" posted at moneylife.in on May 3, 2013:
The government should guide all organisations sitting on unclaimed deposits or maturity proceeds of other financial instruments like insurance policies to exhaust all reasonable options available to track the depositors or their heirs whose money would be transferred to unclaimed accounts before such transfer every year. From notice boards at bank branches to electronic media could be used to draw the depositors’/beneficiaries’ attention. If banks’ secrecy provisions stand in the way, necessary changes should be thought of.
It would be also worthwhile to enquire whether the organisations including banks were periodically updating the database on their folios. Last year the Employees Provident Fund Organization proposed not to pay interest on inoperative accounts in EPF accounts consequent to a proposal to freeze about three crore accounts (amount involved was about Rs10,000 crore) in which there was no fresh contribution during the previous three years or more. Such moves send out disturbing signals about safety of depositors’ funds with public sector organizations.
Ironically, the position will only aggravate with compulsory opening of more accounts to promote financial inclusion, insistence on Aadhaar-enabled accounts even before Aadhaar is yet to reach and crediting of government scheme benefits through bank accounts. The GOI and RBI may look at the issue from a social security angle, lest people lose faith in government-sponsored savings schemes and social security measures and even in the financial sector regulator."
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