GO.296 DR (Dearness Relief) to Pensioners from July 2013 at 63.344%. The arrears of the Revised Dearness Relief to Pensioners shall be paid along with the pension of October, 2013 payable in 1st November, 2013. The amount of Dearness Relief shall be rounded off to the next rupee. Dearness Relief Ready Reckoner@63.344% showing the Dearness Relief payable to the State Pensioners in terms of these orders annexed to the GO.296.
(i) those who retired from service after 01.07.2008 and drawing pension in the Revised Pay Scales, 2010;
(ii) those who retired prior to 01.7.2008 and whose pension was consolidated in the light of orders issued in the read above.
GO.296 Dearness Relief (DR)@63.344% to Pensioners from July 2013
Key Points of the GO.296
Government hereby order the revision of rates of Dearness Relief to pensioners sanctioned in the above G.O. 138 dated 13.06.2013 from 54.784% to 63.344% from 01.07.2013 in respect of: -(i) those who retired from service after 01.07.2008 and drawing pension in the Revised Pay Scales, 2010;
(ii) those who retired prior to 01.7.2008 and whose pension was consolidated in the light of orders issued in the read above.
- These orders are not applicable to the financial assistance grantees and others who are not entitled to Dearness Relief.
- Ready Reckoner showing the Dearness Relief payable to the State Pensioners in terms of these orders is annexed.
- The amount of Dearness Relief shall be rounded off to the next rupee.
- The arrears of the Revised Dearness Relief to Pensioners shall be paid along with the pension of October, 2013 payable in 1st November, 2013.
- All the Treasury Officers/ Pension Payment Officers shall work out and make payments of the Dearness Relief on Pension sanctioned in this order without waiting for further authorization/ instructions from the Accountant General (A&E), Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, in terms of the orders issued in the G.O.Ms.No.270, Finance & Planning (FW: PSC.I) Department, dated 7.10.1986.
- The expenditure is allocable among the various States in accordance with provisions of Rule 24 of the incidence of pension rules in Appendix III-B of the Andhra Pradesh Accounts Code, Volume-I.
- The categories of employees who are not covered for payment through the Treasuries, the expenditure shall be debited to the Pension Funds of Zilla Parishads and Pension funds of the respective Municipal Councils in so far as the Non-Teaching, Non-Government Pensioners of the Municipalities are concerned and the relevant Head of Account of Government in so far as the teachers are concerned.
- In respect of the Pensioners of the Universities the expenditure on account of the Dearness Relief now sanctioned above shall be met from the Block Grants allotted to them.
