Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 · Chapter V: Benefits · General
Section 60: Benefit not assignable or attachable
The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
(1) The right to receive any payment of any benefit under this Act shall not be transferable or assignable.
(2) No cash benefit payable under this Act shall be liable to attachment or sale in execution of any decree or order of any Court.
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 60
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