{
  "id": 13020149,
  "title": "FCC limits ombudsman’s jurisdiction in EOBI pension case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/fcc-limits-ombudsmans-jurisdiction-in-eobi-pension-case",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-09T02:04:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn - Pakistan",
    "slug": "dawn-pakistan",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2035801/fcc-limits-ombudsmans-jurisdiction-in-eobi-pension-case"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "• Officer can’t grant a benefit the law itself does not permit • No independent act of maladministration established to justify intervention ISLAMABAD: The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has ruled that the Federal Ombudsman cannot exercise jurisdiction to bypass the entitlement conditions prescribed under the Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Act, 1976, for the grant of an old-age benefit that the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Daily Times",
        "title": "EOBI pension can’t be granted sans legal requirements: FCC",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/eobi-pension-cant-be-granted-sans-legal-requirements-fcc",
        "published": "2026-10-09T03:52:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}