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Central Government Employees News: What is Gratuity?

June 5, 2010 admin 4 Comments

 

What is Gratuity and how you benefit from it

What is Gratuity?

Gratuity is intended to be a retirement benefit, just like Provident Fund (PF).

However, you need not wait till retirement to get this money.

When do you get the gratuity amount?

You get the gratuity amount at the time of retirement or resignation, provided you have completed at least 5 years of service in the organization.

In case of an employee’s death, the gratuity amount is payable even if he or she has not completed 5 years of service in the organization.

Who is eligible for gratuity?

Any employer that has ten or more salaried employees / workers has to provide gratuity to the eligible employees. As mentioned above, you would be eligible to get gratuity only if you have completed a minimum of 5 years of service in the company.

Thus, you can get gratuity amount if you work in an organization employing 10 or more people, and if you have completed 5 years in your job.

How much do you get as gratuity?

In simple terms, you get half a month’s salary for each completed year in service in the organization. Thus, if you resign after serving for 6 years, you get an amount equal to 3 months salary as gratuity.

To be precise,

Gratuity amount = ( Monthly Salary / 26 ) * 15 * Number of years of service

This amount, however, was subject to a ceiling of Rs. 3,50,000. Thus, the maximum gratuity payable was Rs. 3.5 Lakhs. (This is as mandated by the law – there are some companies who are more liberal, and do not have any upper limit on the gratuity amount).

This maximum amount has been increased to Rs. 10,00,000 (Rs. 10 Lakhs) recently. (More on this later)

What is “Salary” for calculation of gratuity?

Before you feel too happy or excited, please note that the definition of “salary” for the purpose of calculating the gratuity is quite narrow.

Salary just means your basic, and dearness allowance (DA), if any. Any House Rent Allowance (HRA), special allowance, travel allowance, any other allowance or any other component of your salary can not be included in this calculation.

However, a positive is that the “salary” to be considered for gratuity calculation is your last drawn salary.

Income Tax (IT) Treatment of gratuity proceeds

Any amount that you receive as gratuity is added to your income for that year under the head “Income from Salary”. However, exemption is available upto a certain amount under section 10(10) of the Income Tax (IT) Act.

To calculate this exemption, employees are classified in three categories depending on their type of employment and their coverage under the Payment of Gratuity Act.

In short, the entire amount received as gratuity is tax-free for government employees. Whereas for non-government employees, the maximum possible exemption is Rs. 3,50,000. (This should be increased to Rs. 10,00,000 soon – please read on)

For all the details on taxation of gratuity proceeds, please read “Income Tax (IT) treatment of gratuity proceeds and calculation of exemption”.

What does this increase in limit mean to you?

Through the “Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act 2010”, the limit of maximum payable gratuity has been raised to Rs. 10,00,000 (from Rs. 3,50,000). What does it mean to you? It means that you would now possibly get a higher amount of gratuity payout!

Here are some points to note:

This change would impact you only if your gratuity payout is expected to be more than Rs. 3,50,000

This change would not impact you if you are a frequent job hopper – if you change jobs before completing 5 years in a company, you would not be entitled to any gratuity at all

If your company didn’t have an upper limit on gratuity earlier, you would be unaffected by this change

Should you be doing anything now that the limit has been raised to Rs. 10 Lakhs?

This change is automatic – you do not have to do anything to get the benefit of this increased gratuity limit.

However, you can do something to increase your gratuity entitlement – you can renegotiate your Cost to Company (CTC) salary.

Why? As we saw, the amount of gratuity depends on your salary, and the definition of salary for gratuity calculation includes only basic and DA. Thus, if you renegotiate your CTC salary and increase your basic and / or DA, you would get a higher amount as gratuity at the time of resignation or retirement!

But an important component is missing…

The Income Tax (IT) Act still has Rs. 3,50,000 as the maximum tax-free gratuity amount for employees of private companies. This also needs to be increased to Rs. 10,00,000. This is expected to happen soon.

Source: Raagvamdatt

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Comments

  1. JKPATEL says

    May 7, 2011 at 3:28 pm

    sir
    i am working in krishi vigyan kendra granted by indian councial of agriculture research in gujarat.councial is provided the kvk to the different organisation in the state.I was worked in kvk ,vadodara from 1-10-2003 to 30-6-2006 and regine from the organisation and join the krishi vigyan kendra kheda (gujarat). this organisation protect my pay scale of kvk vadodara. my service in kvk vadodara was from 1-7-2006 to 1-8-2009 i am regine from the kvk kheda.thereis no service gap in my duty .i have a quistion that i am eligible for gratuity .i am eligible pls give under which rules because kvk kheda is denied to give the gratuity

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  2. ajay d says

    September 2, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    Need your assistance…
    my father worked 30 years in center government defance civil servervice.before one month retiredment date he had sudden death coz of heart attact.

    -Retirement date: 30 march 2001
    (9 year India airforce serice was couted but not taking penssion from indian air force)Total 39 year service
    -Date of death : 20 feb 2001
    -Baic pay at 2001 : Rs. 7.500 (mothly) (chargemen)

    my query is how much amount approx to get dependent…
    for eg: Death gratuty,pf etc

    (2001 at that time we receved approx 5.5 lac only and regular penssion to my mother started from 2001 Rs.5.600)
    ajay d

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  3. sachin says

    July 28, 2010 at 4:54 am

    hi
    my father is central govt employee at Postal Life Insurance please elaborate what will be his formula of gratuity calculation . he is going to retire next year.
    if there is difference in gratuity of corporations and PLI.

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  4. Satheesh says

    June 7, 2010 at 1:25 pm

    I resigned from Central Industrial Security Force after 9 years of regular service. They did not give me the gratuity saying that it is not applicable for those who resign. What is the fact of this matter? Can anyone give a correct answer?

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