No order issued to resume payment of dearness allowance, dearness relief, clarifies finance ministry

The finance ministry on Saturday clarified that it has not passed any order to resume payment of dearness allowance to central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners from July. The ministry said that a document claiming the same was being circulated on social media.

“This OM [office memorandum] is fake,” the ministry tweeted, along with the purported document. “No such OM has been issued by GOI [government of India].”

Dearness allowance is paid by the government to its employees to compensate for the increase in the cost of living due to inflation. It is revised twice a year, on January 1 and July 1. Dearness relief is the same allowance given to central government pensioners.

A document is doing rounds on social media claiming resumption of DA to Central Government employees & Dearness Relief to Central Government pensioners from July 2021.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗠 𝗶𝘀 #𝗙𝗔𝗞𝗘. 𝗡𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗢𝗠 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝐆𝐎𝐈. pic.twitter.com/HMcQVj81Sf

— Ministry of Finance (@FinMinIndia) June 26, 2021

In April last year, the government had put on hold three installments of dearness allowance and dearness relief in view of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Additional installment of dearness allowance payable to central government employees and dearness relief to central government pensioners, due from 1st January, 2020 shall not be paid,” the ministry had…

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