I shall share here the details of Adhoc Allowances and Revised Pay Scales 2025. As you know that there is much news from major TV Channels that the Government is granting DRA-2025 @ 30% and Revised Pay Scales 2025 with merging one of the Adhoc Relief Allowances. It is not yet clear which ARA Government will merge into basic pay. On the basis of this news, I have tried to clarify the status of these allowances and the possibility of merging them into basic pay and the introduction of Revised Pay Scales 2025. The Federal Government is presenting the Budget on 10th June 2025, and there may be new news in the coming days. The government may produce its formula or amendments to the proposals. However, based on current news, the current status of the ARAs and Basic Pay Scales 2025 is as under:
Adhoc Allowances and Revised Pay Scales 2025
Currently, the employees are getting three Adhoc Relief Allowances. One of these allowances is on the running/current basic pay, and the other two are frozen. The government may merge the running or frozen Adhoc Relief Allowance. If the Government merges the Adhoc Relief Allowance 2023, then the employees will have the largest increase in Basic Pay. The next number of ARA-2024, and lastly is RA-2022.
Rates of Adhoc Relief Allowance 2022, ARA-2023, and ARA-2024
The rates of each adhoc relief allowance are as follows:
Adhoc Relief Allowance 2022
Currently, the employees are getting ARA-2022 at the frozen level. The rate of ARA-2022 is @ 10% of the Basic Pay of the 2017 Pay Scales. All employees were granted this allowance on their basic pay as of 30-06-2022.
