{"id":33542,"date":"2023-12-09T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/govt-announces-revised-financial-assistance-for-families-of-deceased-employees-pakistan-observer\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T22:23:03","slug":"govt-announces-revised-financial-assistance-for-families-of-deceased-employees-pakistan-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/govt-announces-revised-financial-assistance-for-families-of-deceased-employees-pakistan-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces revised financial assistance for families of deceased employees &#8211; Pakistan Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Punjab government has abolished the service rule (A.17) which guaranteed government jobs for children of deceased government employees. Instead, the Finance Department has introduced a revised financial assistance package offering substantial increases in monetary compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new scheme, the families of deceased employees will receive significantly increased financial assistance based on the employee\u2019s grade level.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of Grade 1 to 4 will now receive Rs. 50 lakhs (increased from Rs. 16 lakhs), those in Grade 5 to 10 will receive Rs. 75 lakhs (increased from Rs. 19 lakhs), and Grade 11 to 15 employees will be entitled to Rs. 1 crore (increased from Rs. 22 lakhs). The financial assistance increases progressively for higher grades, with Grade 20 to 22 employees receiving the highest amount at Rs. 2 crore (increased from Rs. 40 lakhs).<\/p>\n<p>This revised package aims to provide greater financial security and support to families who have lost their loved ones serving the government. It represents a significant shift from the previous system of offering government jobs, providing greater flexibility and immediate financial relief to the families.<\/p>\n<p>While the details of implementation and eligibility are still being finalized, this announcement marks a positive step towards ensuring the well-being of families affected by the tragic loss of a government employee. It is expected to benefit countless families across Punjab and alleviate some of the financial burden associated with such a loss.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab government has abolished the service rule (A.17) which guaranteed government jobs for children of deceased government employees. Instead, the Finance Department has introduced a revised financial assistance package offering substantial increases in monetary compensation. Under the new scheme, the families of deceased employees will receive significantly increased financial assistance based on the employee\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pakobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/panjab.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}