Pension new rule: The government has once again given relief to millions of employees of the country by making major changes. Under the new rule, the employees who retired on 30 June or 31 December will also get the benefit of increment. In fact, the government has decided to give a nonsense increment to such employees so that the calculation of pension for them can also be done on the same basis.

Now pension will be decided on this basis

This decision of the government will provide relief to thousands of employees, who used to miss the increase with just one day’s difference. Actually, dearness allowance is to increase on 1 January or 1 July. In such a situation, the benefit of annual increment is added even before calculating pension. On the basis of this increase, it will be decided how much the employee will get a lump sum amount on retirement and after that how much pension will be received. With this new decision of the government, the benefit of increment will be added to the employees who retired before the dearness allowance increases.

Supreme Court also approved

In 2006, the government fixed the date of equal increment every year on 1 July. Two dates were made in 2016- 1 January and 1 July. Just a day before this, when the employees who retired, missed the increase, it also affected the pension. In 2017, the Madras High Court gave the benefit of natural increment to the retired employee in a case hearing. After this, the Supreme Court also approved the right to get the right to get a nonsense increment in such cases in 2023 and 2024.

This is a matter of mind

The Department of Personnel and Training (DOPT) has issued an office memorandum on May 20, 2025, clarifying that now all the eligible central employees will get this benefit, provided they have completed the service correctly. However, the thing to keep in mind is that the calculation of nason pension will be only for monthly pension. This will not be applicable to other retirement benefits like the rest of gratuity, leave increase, pension communication. Suppose if the salary of an employee was Rs 79,000 on June 30 and he had to get an increase of Rs 2,000 from July 1, then his pension will now be fixed on the basis of Rs 81,000.

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