DA and Pay Commission for Pensioners: Many retired people started to panic after a WhatsApp message spread online saying the government had ended important pension benefits under the Finance Act 2025. The message said retired workers would no longer get Dearness Allowance hikes or Pay Commission changes. But this claim is not true at all. The PIB Fact Check team clearly said the message is fake and asked people not to believe it.
PIB Fact Check calls the Message Fake
🚨 Will retired Govt employees stop getting DA hikes & Pay Commission benefits under the Finance Act 2025⁉️
A message circulating on #WhatsApp claims that the Central Government has withdrawn post-retirement benefits like DA hikes and Pay Commission revisions for retired… pic.twitter.com/E2mCRMPObO
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) November 13, 2025
The official PIB Fact Check account on X shared a post to warn people. They wrote: “A message circulating on #WhatsApp claims that the Central Government has withdrawn post-retirement benefits like DA hikes and Pay Commission revisions for retired employees under the Finance Act 2025. The PIB Fact Check team confirms that this claim is fake.”
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The post made it very clear that the government has not removed any benefits for normal pensioners. It also explained what actually changed, because the WhatsApp message was misleading people.
PIB added more details and said the truth is connected to only one special rule. They explained: “The fact is Rule 37 of the CCS (Pension) Rules, 2021 has been amended to state that if an absorbed PSU employee is dismissed for misconduct, their retirement benefits will be forfeited. This is not applicable to all central government pensioners.”
This change affects only PSU employees who were absorbed and later removed for wrongdoing. It has nothing to do with regular retired government employees.
DR and DA: What you Should know
Dearness Allowance (DA) helps active government workers manage the rising cost of living. Pensioners get the same support but with a different name. Their version is called DR. It works the same way for retired people and helps keep their pension value safe from inflation.
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The DR amount is normally updated two times every year. This mostly happens in March and September. When January and February come, the DR amount is still based on the DR from December of the previous year.
The Amended Rule
The real change that happened is about Rule 37(29C). The rule now says:
“… the dismissal or removal from service of the public sector undertaking of any employee after his absorption in such undertaking for any subsequent misconduct shall lead to the forfeiture of the retirement benefits for the service rendered under the Government also and in the event of his dismissal or removal or retrenchment, the decision of the undertaking shall be subject to review by the Ministry administratively concerned with the undertaking.
For the purpose of this Rule, the relevant provisions of Rule 7 and 8 read with Rule 41 and Rule 44(5)(a) &(b) would be applicable analogous as is applicable to a Government servant under these Rules”
