Fact-Checking Policy
Every number, date and eligibility condition here is checked against a primary source before publication. This is how, and how often.
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What gets checked
Every number, date, rate, threshold, eligibility condition and official link on this site is checked against a primary source before publication. Nothing is carried over from another website.
- Statutory rates and thresholds — tax slabs, contribution rates, statutory ceilings — against the Act, rule or official notification.
- Administered rates — provident fund interest, small savings rates — against the notifying authority.
- Scheme details — benefits, eligibility, exclusions, documents — against the scheme’s own official portal.
- Official links, by opening each one and confirming it reaches the page described.
- Calculator outputs, against an independently computed worked example and, where one exists, the official calculator.
What the verification date means
Government pages, scheme pages and document guides show a "last verified" date. That date means a person opened the official source on that day and confirmed each claim on the page against it.
It is deliberately separate from the "last updated" date, which changes whenever the page is edited for any reason including wording. Verification is about the facts, not the prose.
If the verification date on a page looks old to you, treat the page as a starting point and check the official portal linked on it. That is why the date is shown.
Re-checking schedule
| Content type | Re-checked |
|---|---|
| Income tax rates, slabs, rebates and surcharge | After every Union Budget and any amending Finance Act |
| Small savings rates — PPF, SSY and similar | At the start of every quarter, when rates are notified |
| EPF interest rate and EPFO rules | When EPFO declares a rate or amends a scheme |
| GST rates | On any CBIC rate notification |
| Government scheme pages | On a rolling schedule, and immediately on any announced change |
| Document guides and official links | On a rolling schedule, and whenever a broken link is reported |
| Calculator logic | Whenever the underlying rule changes; unit tests run on every build |
What happens when sources disagree
Occasionally official sources are inconsistent, or a rule is genuinely contested — the treatment of four years and 240 days for gratuity is a good example.
In those cases we do not pick the version that makes for a cleaner page. We describe the disagreement, explain what is settled and what is not, and tell the reader what would resolve it for their own case. An honest "this depends and here is why" is more useful than a confident answer that might be wrong.
What we will not do
- Publish a figure we could not verify against a primary source.
- Cite a source we have not read.
- Present an estimate as a certainty, or a projection as a promise.
- Invent statistics, survey results, expert quotes or citations.
- Fabricate author credentials, reviews, ratings or testimonials.
- Add structured data describing content that is not on the page.
Reporting an error
If you believe something here is wrong, please tell us — a link to the official source that says otherwise is the fastest route to a same-day fix.
Our corrections policy sets out what happens next, including how quickly we aim to respond and how substantive corrections are disclosed on the page.