Background Welcome to Jeevan Pramaan . Digital Life Certificate for Pensioners is the tag line on https://www.jeevanpraman.gov.in and it has been a great improvement from earlier when (central {Indian} government) pensioners were to physically visit a bank and submit a set of documents and show themselves in person every November to enable the government give their well deserved pension. It was laborious, it was time consuming and with age it was difficult, but with no other option it was something that all pensioners did. The bank sent those papers to a central processing unit and the retired person got his pension. It was nowhere digital! Last couple of years it has gone digital thanks to the biometric that is part of Aadhar. While people still had to go the bank or a Jeevan Pramaan center and submit a form, their presence was verified by their thumb impression which verified that the pensioner was alive! In case a pensioner could not visit a bank - a bank person would visit the hous