NewsPhotos 7th Pay Commission latest updates: Full DA, DR benefits coming on July 1 for Central govt employees

7th Pay Commission latest updates: Full DA, DR benefits coming on July 1 for Central govt employees

With the decision now to restore DA benefits from July 1, central government employees and pensioners could hope to get a fat increase in the allowance that will also cover for the possible increases in three previous due cycles.

Reema Sharma|

Updated:Mar 17, 2021, 01:25 PM IST

7th Pay Commission latest updates: DA benefits from July 1

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7th Pay Commission latest updates --Bringing massive relief for lakhs of Central government employees and pensioners, Minister for State for Finance, Anurag Thakur had recently told Parliament that the employees will get full benefits of dearness allowance starting July 1. All the three pending installments will be restored prospectively.

7th Pay Commission latest updates: 3 installments of DA

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The three installments of dearness allowance for central government employees and DR for pensioners, due on January 1, 2020, July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021, were frozen in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

7th Pay Commission latest updates: No revision of arrears

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The decision now to restore it from July, 2021 would benefit about 50 lakh central government employees and more than 65 lakh pensioners. But the catch is that, any increase in DA from July 1 will only be effective from that day, which means that the employees would not get any arrears on non revision of DA for previous period.

7th Pay Commission latest updates: DA of 17% currently

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Central government employees are currently getting DA of 17 per cent. This level of DA became effective from July 2019 with further revision due from January 2020, however, this along with subsequent two other revisions were suspended due to Covid-19.

7th Pay Commission latest updates: DA, DR halt from January 2020

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Last year, the Union Cabinet had approved a 4 per cent increase in DA for government employees and pensioners to 21 per cent. This was to be effective from January 1, 2020. However, in wake of the pandemic the disbursement of DA at increased rates was suspended along with DR for the pensioners.