https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=18271 Cabinet approved modifications to the 7th CPC allowances effective 1 July 2017, retaining and enhancing selected allowances, instituting a Risk and Hardship Matrix to govern risk/hardship rates with two slab rates per cell and an RH Max cell, setting minimum floors and accelerated revision triggers for House Rent Allowance, substantially increasing Siachen and several operational allowances, consolidating uniform payments into a Dress Allowance, subsuming certain locality allowances into a Tough Location Allowance, and increasing selected education, childcare, qualification and pensioner medical allowances while rationalising the total number of allowances from 197 to 128. en-us Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:46:06 +0530 Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:46:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=18271 Cabinet approved modifications to the 7th CPC allowances effective 1 July 2017, retaining and enhancing selected allowances, instituting a Risk and Hardship Matrix to govern risk/hardship rates with two slab rates per cell and an RH Max cell, setting minimum floors and accelerated revision triggers for House Rent Allowance, substantially increasing Siachen and several operational allowances, consolidating uniform payments into a Dress Allowance, subsuming certain locality allowances into a Tough Location Allowance, and increasing selected education, childcare, qualification and pensioner medical allowances while rationalising the total number of allowances from 197 to 128. News - Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:46:06 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=18271