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- By Aditya Pratap Singh
- Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:25 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
7th Pay Commission: The central government will most likely announce a 3 percent rise in dearness allowance (DA) in the next month. With the surge, the DA will attain 53 percent. Central government employees may not only get hikes in DA but they will get the arrears for 2 months of July and August with the next month's salary.
DA arrears will be accessible
DA is given to government employees, while DR is given to pensioners. DA and DR increases are applicable twice a year, in January and July. In March 2024, the administration expanded the dearness allowance by 4 percent to 50 percent of the base pay. With this, dearness relief was also increased by 4 percent.
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Unlikely to get 18 months' DA arrears
The administration is not likely to release the arrears of 18 months' dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) kept during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not long ago, in the monsoon session of Parliament, two individuals asked the administration a question concerning DA arrears.
The administration was asked whether the administration is contemplating releasing 18 month's dearness allowance or relief for central government employees and pensioners, which was kept during COVID-19. In response to this question, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary denied the same. He stated that it was decided to halt three installments of DA and DR to reduce financial pressure during the pandemic. In 2020, it was not thought proper to release DA and DR arrears because of the financial crisis because of the pandemic and the financial need for the measures taken by the administration.
