7th Pay Commission Latest News Today: The Central government employees who are eagerly waiting for their hike in dearness relief and dearness allowance, here comes another piece of good news for them. The Central government has extended the time limit for submission of claims for Travelling Allowance (TA) on retirement from 60 days to 180 days following the date of completion of the travel. The Central government, however, kept the time limit for submission of TA claim on tour, transfer and training at 60 days. An announcement in this regard has been made by the Department of Expenditure at the Ministry of Finance.
The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance made the announcement in this regard issuing Office Memorandum (OM) that says, “Several references have been received in this Department regarding extension of time-limit for submission of TA claims in r/o journeys performed by retired employees and their families for going to Home town/place of settlement after retirement as difficulties are being faced by the retired Govt. officials while claiming reimbursement of TA on retirement within a period of sixty days of completion of their journey.”
Earlier, the Department’s 0.M. dated 13th March 2018 had changed the time limit for submission of claims for TA on Tour/Transfer/Training/ Journey on retirement to 60 days from one year, succeeding the date of completion of the journey.
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Hailing the center’s decision to modify time-limit for TA submission Shiva Gopal Mishra, Secretary — Staff Side at National Council of JCM said, “The central government’s move is a welcome move as submission of TA claim within 60 days was slightly hectic and there have been incidences when the beneficiary had to face problems while submitting their TA claims in the given time-limit. In fact, we are in favour central government f all settlements on the date of retirement so that employees need not to move from pillar to post post-retirement.”
