{"id":192827,"date":"2025-12-19T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:26:22","slug":"govt-withdraws-restrictions-on-pension-salary-for-post-retirement-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192827\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt withdraws restrictions on pension, salary for post-retirement employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has withdrawn both notifications that imposed restrictions on receiving pension and salary for individuals who take up government employment after retirement. According to a new office memorandum issued by the Ministry of Finance, the withdrawal of these notifications will take effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance has withdrawn the notification issued on April 22, 2025, which had required retired individuals returning to government service to choose between receiving either a pension or a salary.<\/p>\n<p>Under that notification, federal pensioners who resumed employment after the age of 60 were prohibited from receiving both pension and salary simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2570649\/govt-implements-new-pension-scheme\" target=\"_blank\">Govt implements new pension scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u00a0officially implemented the Contributory Pension Scheme for public servants in March, marking a major reform in the pension system. The reform aimed\u00a0to slow the rising pension expenditure, estimated at Rs1.05 trillion for 2024-25, up 29% from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, employees would not be allowed to withdraw funds before retirement; upon retirement, they may withdraw up to 25%, with the rest invested for 20 years or until age 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government has withdrawn both notifications that imposed restrictions on receiving pension and salary for individuals who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[114,268,85,105528,46,5345,338,266,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-192827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-islamabad","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-latest","14":"tag-pakistan","15":"tag-personal-finance","16":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}