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Pilibhit: The disabled empowerment department in Pilibhit has found over 60% applications filed online as unfit for the pension scheme for disabled persons. “We are, therefore, reviewing only online applications,” he added. The system of filing applications was made online in July last year.According to district disabled empowerment officer KP Singh, during verification of 120 online applications for disability pension received from urban areas over the past one month, the department found 75 applicants to be ineligible due to submission of either false disability or income certificates.In case of rural belt, 139 applications of the total 454 cases filed online were found unfit for pension. Of these, 22,654 persons are drawing the disabled pension.However, officials suspect that a majority of these beneficiaries who filed their applications are not fit to receive the pension. They expressed this view during a review..