{"id":182677,"date":"2025-10-01T14:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182677\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:11:16","slug":"centre-hikes-da-dr-by-3-pc-to-benefit-1-18-cr-employees-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/182677\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre hikes DA, DR by 3 pc; to benefit 1.18 cr employees, pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 01: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday increased Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) by 3 per cent for about 49.19 lakh central government employees and 68.72 lakh pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>The DA\/DR increase of 3 per cent over the existing rate of 55 per cent of the basic pay\/pension to compensate against the price rise is effective July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The combined impact on the exchequer on account of an increase in DA and DR will be Rs 10,083.96 crore per annum, I&amp;B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said while briefing on decisions taken in the Cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The increase is in accordance with the accepted formula based on the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi, Oct 01: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday increased Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,186,184,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-182677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}