{"id":89115,"date":"2025-10-23T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89115"},"modified":"2025-10-23T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:59:41","slug":"housing-ministry-seeks-cabinet-approval-to-raise-rent-ceiling-for-govt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/housing-ministry-seeks-cabinet-approval-to-raise-rent-ceiling-for-govt-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Ministry seeks cabinet approval to raise rent ceiling for Govt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/federal-govt-decides-to-increase-housing-rent-of-employees-by-85-percent\/\">Housing<\/a> and Works has sent a summary to the federal cabinet for increasing the rental ceiling for federal government employees.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Housing and Works has sent a summary to the federal cabinet for an 85 percent increase in the house rent ceiling for federal government employees.<\/p>\n<p>The summary recommends a uniform increase for federal employees from Grade 1 to 22.<\/p>\n<p>This increase in the house rent ceiling will come into effect after approval from the federal cabinet, which will benefit hundreds of government employees.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Finance Ministry had given the green signal for the hike, with the summary soon to be presented before the federal cabinet for final approval.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark decision covers employees from Grade 1 to Grade 22, benefiting permanent and contract staff of all federal departments.<\/p>\n<p>The hike will now be calculated on the current basic pay, which was long-awaited as the current allowance was still based on the 2008 basic pay scale.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the move is aimed at reducing the financial burden on government employees who are facing high housing prices amid record inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The new allowance will be implemented across the country after the cabinet gives its final approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision will make a real difference to employees struggling with rent costs,\u201d said a senior finance ministry official, calling the increase \u201ca long-overdue reform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Housing and Works has sent a summary to the federal cabinet for increasing the rental ceiling for federal government employees. The Ministry of Housing and Works has sent a summary to the federal cabinet for an 85 percent increase in the house rent ceiling for federal government employees. The summary recommends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":89116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22686,31850],"class_list":["post-89115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-govt-employees","tag-housing-rent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89117,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89115\/revisions\/89117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}