Central Government Employees DA ALERT! NO RESUMPTION of dearness allowance, confirms Finance Ministry
Check TWEET CLARIFICATION BY Ministry of Finance on Central Government Employees DA, pensioners DR.
Central Government Employees DA, pensioners DR Latest News: The Finance Ministry on Saturday said that NO ORDER relating to the payment of increments in dearness allowance for central government employees and dearness relief for pensioners has been issued.
TWEET CLARIFICATION BY Ministry of Finance @FinMinIndia
In a tweet, the Ministry said a document is doing the rounds on social media claiming resumption of DA to Central Government employees & Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners from July 2021.
"This OM (Office memorandum) is #Fake. No such OM has been issued by GOI," it tweeted.
A document is doing rounds on social media claiming resumption of DA to Central Government employees & Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners from July 2021.
pic.twitter.com/HMcQVj81Sf— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) June 26, 2021
DA on HOLD
In April last year, the finance ministry had put on hold increment in dearness allowance (DA) for 50 lakh central government employees and 61 lakh pensioners till June 30, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
What Department of Expenditure had said
- "In view of the crisis arising out of COVID-19, it has been decided that additional instalment of dearness allowance payable to central government employees and dearness relief (DR) to central government pensioners due from January 1, 2020, shall not be paid."
- "The additional instalment of DA and DR due from July 1, 2020, and January 1, 2021, shall also not be paid," the Department of Expenditure had said, as per a report by PTI.
- However, DA and DR at current rates will continue to be paid, it had said, the PTI report added.
(With PTI inputs)
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