Subject: Grant of Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024 to the Employees of the Federal Government
The President has been pleased to sanction, with effect from 1st July, 2024, and until further orders, an Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024 to all Federal Government Employees, including Armed Forces Personnel, Civil Armed Forces, Civil Employees of the Federal Government, and civilians paid from Defence Estimates, including contingent paid staff and contract employees employed against civil posts in Basic Pay Scales on standard terms and conditions of contract appointment. The rate of the Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024 is as follows:
BPS-1 to 16: @ 25% of Running Basic Pay
BPS-17 to 22: @ 20% of Running Basic Pay
Terms and Conditions:
The amount of Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024:
i) Will be subject to Income Tax.
ii) Will be admissible during leave and the entire period of LPR, except during extraordinary leave.
iii) Will not be treated as part of emoluments for the purpose of calculation of Pension/Gratuity and recovery of House Rent.
iv) Will not be admissible to employees during the tenure of their posting/deputation abroad.
v) Will be admissible to employees on their repatriation from posting/deputation abroad at the rate and amount which would have been admissible to them had they not been posted abroad.
The term “Basic Pay” for the purpose of Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024 will also include the amount of personal pay granted on account of annual increment(s) beyond the maximum of the existing pay scales.
The above Adhoc Relief Allowance-2024 shall be accommodated from within the budgetary allocation for the year 2024-25 by the respective Ministries/Divisions/Departments, and no supplementary grants will be given on this account.
Frozen or Not Frozen?
If we look at the above contents of the Notification, the Federal Government did not freeze the Adhoc Relief Allowance 2024. So the employees will get an increase in their ARA-2024 when they will get the Annual Increment 2024.
