{"id":90024,"date":"2025-11-01T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=90024"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:48:32","slug":"punjab-govt-abolishes-pension-system-for-new-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-govt-abolishes-pension-system-for-new-recruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab govt abolishes pension system for new recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government, in a bid to cut the burden on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/irregularities-in-karakoram-highway-project-lose-rs-29-4-billion-to-national-exchequer\/\">public exchequer<\/a>, has decided to provide a lump-sum pay package to recruits instead of giving a basic pay scale.<\/p>\n<p>This is a substantial policy change, part of the effort of the government to reduce pension liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>A recent notification clarified that all recruits will fall under the ambit of the new policy, while those appointed under the 2018 law would be unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The new decision comes as part of a broader strategy to minimize pension-related expenses for the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>The Punjab government has formalized this change through the issuance of a new ordinance, known as the \u201cPunjab Regularization of Service Cancellation Ordinance 2025,\u201d which has come into effect from October 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance has already been approved by the Governor of Punjab and published in the official Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, under the new system, pensions for future employees were abolished, marking a radical turn for the government&#8217;s policy of employee benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government, in a bid to cut the burden on the public exchequer, has decided to provide a lump-sum pay package to recruits instead of giving a basic pay scale. This is a substantial policy change, part of the effort of the government to reduce pension liabilities. A recent notification clarified that all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32076],"class_list":["post-90024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pension-system-for-new-recruits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024","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=90024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90025,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90024\/revisions\/90025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}