DA Hike Updates: After the announcement of the Eighth Pay Commission, the wait among employees and pensioners has increased a lot and meanwhile, great news has come for central employees and pensioners. The government has released a big update for employees and pensioners regarding DA (DA Hike updated news). The government may soon increase the Dearness Allowance. The government has also announced the date for the announcement of Dearness Allowance.
7th Pay Commission DA Hike: The government revises the dearness allowance of central employees twice a year. This revision is done twice a year on 1 January and 1 July. Now the government is going to make an announcement regarding dearness allowance this month. Let us tell you that this increase will be applicable from 1 January 2025 (DA Hike in January). There is full hope of an increase of 3 percent in this dearness allowance of the employees (Central govt employees). Let us know about this entire update of the government.
Know when DA is revised-
At present, the dearness allowance of employees is 53 percent and the government can increase the dearness allowance (DA hike) of central employees (latest update for govt. employees) by 3 percent. This increase will benefit not only the employees but also the pensioners.
If we look at the records of previous years, the government has increased the DA of January (January 2025 DA) in the end of February and beginning of March. It is expected that the government can increase the dearness allowance (DA Hike latest update) before the festival of Holi. This time Holi is on 14 March. Earlier last year also, the DA was increased in the first week of October, but it was considered to be implemented from 1 July.
The announcement will be made after the cabinet meeting-
Let us tell you that the benefit of increase in DA will be available to the employees as well as pensioners. DA is given to central employees and DR (Dearness Relief) pensioners. Along with this, let us tell you that the government will also release the installment of PM Kisan on 28 February. At the end of the month, a cabinet meeting will be held on Wednesday, 26 February. After which the government may increase the Dearness Allowances of employees of central employees.
Dearness allowance will increase by this much-
After the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission, the dearness allowance of the employees was increased by 3 percent in October. At that time, DA had increased from 50 percent to 53 percent. At the same time, earlier in March 2024, after the increase of 4 percent in DA, it became 50 percent of the basic pay. Now at present the DA of the employees is 53 percent of the basic salary. Along with dearness allowance, dearness relief (DR) for pensioners is also 53 percent.
Government’s mood regarding the DA that was stopped for 18 months
Amidst the increase in DA, there is a lot of discussion about the pending DA arrears in 2020. In such a situation, recently the Union Minister of State for Finance said that the government is not considering releasing the 18 months DA (18 month Pending DA Arrear) and DR arrears that were stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Minister of State says that the government has refused to stop the DA (DA Arrears news Updates) during COVID-19. Giving the reason for the refusal, he said that due to the economic problems of the country due to the Kovid epidemic, three installments of January 2020, July 2020 and January 2021 were stopped, because at that time the country was facing financial problems.
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