{"id":164862,"date":"2024-10-30T19:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/govt-grants-additional-instalment-for-dearness-relief-to-pensioners-ahead-of-diwali\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T19:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:39:32","slug":"govt-grants-additional-instalment-for-dearness-relief-to-pensioners-ahead-of-diwali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/govt-grants-additional-instalment-for-dearness-relief-to-pensioners-ahead-of-diwali\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt grants additional instalment for dearness relief to pensioners ahead of Diwali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-114786891,imgsize-26948.cms?resize=1600,900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Govt grants additional instalment for dearness relief to pensioners ahead of Diwali\" title=\"Govt grants additional instalment for dearness relief to pensioners ahead of Diwali\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"6\">Ahead of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/diwali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diwali<\/a>, the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/union-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union government<\/a> on Wednesday issued an order for granting an additional instalment of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dearness-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dearness relief<\/a> to pensioners. The Union Cabinet had, on October 16, approved the additional instalment of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dearness-allowance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dearness allowance<\/a> (DA) and dearness relief (DR) at 3 per cent to <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/central-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">central government<\/a> employees as well as <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/pensioners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pensioners<\/a>, effective from July 1, 2024. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> In pursuance, the Department of Pension &amp; Pensioners&#8217; Welfare (DoPPW) has issued an order dated October 30, 2024 for all central government pensioners\/family pensioners, the personnel ministry said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p> Now central government pensioners, including family pensioners, will become entitled to higher amount of dearness allowance and dearness relief from the existing rate of 50 per cent to 53 per cent of their basic pension\/family pension, according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p> The hike, effective from July 1, enables pensioners to receive arrears on account of the increased allowances for the past four months.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:2--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/govt-grants-additional-instalment-for-dearness-relief-to-pensioners-ahead-of-diwali\/articleshow\/114786891.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Diwali, the Union government on Wednesday issued an order for granting an additional instalment of dearness relief to pensioners. The Union Cabinet had, on October 16, approved the additional instalment of dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) at 3 per cent to central government employees as well as pensioners, effective from July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-114786891,imgsize-26948.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[1315,203,11531,17477,42957,17475,55511,3056,7615,66144,17470,128015,6661,47062],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164864,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164862\/revisions\/164864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}