Grant Of Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 @ 50% Of Existing Basic Pay And Medical Allowance

GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
FINANCE DIVISION
(Regulation Wing)

No.F.1(1)Imp/2010-622                                                                

Islamabad, the 5^th July, 2010

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:    GRANT OF AD-HOC ALLOWANCE – 2010 @ 50% OF EXISTING BASIC PAY AND MEDICAL ALLOWANCE.

The President has been pleased to sanction with effect from 1^st July, 2010 and till further orders an Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 @ 50% of the existing basic pay of Basic Pay Scales, 2008 to all the civil employees of the Federal Government as well as the 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.

2.               The amount of this Ad-hoc Allowance:

i)    will be subject to Income Tax.

ii)   will be admissible during leave and entire period of LPR except during extra ordinary 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 the employees during the tenure of their posting/deputation abroad.

v)   will be admissible to the 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.

3.               The term “Basic Pay” for the purpose of Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 will also include the amount of the personal pay granted on account of annual increment(s) beyond the maximum of the existing pay scales.

4.               This Ad-hoc Allowance will not be admissible to personnel of Armed Forces, Civil Armed Forces, ICT Police, National Highways & Motorways Police and employees of other Departments who have already been allowed an allowance equal to one month’s basic pay.

Medical Allowance — 2010:

5.               On the recommendations of Pay & Pension Commission – 2009, the Medical Allowance in lieu of Outdoor Treatment and reimbursement of medical expenses has been granted as under:

Sr. No.	BPS	Existing Rates	BPS	Revised Rates
i)	1-15 & 16 Non-Gazetted)	Rs. 500/- p.m.	1-15	Rs. 1000/- p.m.
ii)	16-22	Nil	16-22	15% of basic pay

Note:     The existing facility of reimbursement of amounts spent on account of purchase of medicines by Government servants and local purchase of medicines by Government Hospitals for Outdoor Patient (OPD) will be discontinued. However, the existing facilities for consultation and diagnostic investigations at OPD will continue as before. Reimbursement/Local Purchase on account of cancer, Hepatitis B, C and Insulin dependent diabetes would be admissible for OPD patients. The existing facility of reimbursement of all kinds of expenditure on account of Indoor Medical Treatment will continue as before.

6.               The above Ad-hoc Allowance — 2010 and Medical Allowance shall be accommodated from within th budgetary allocation for the year 2010-2011 by the respective Ministries/Divisions/Departments and no supplementary grants would be given on this account.

Section Officer (Imp)