seventh Pay Commission Latest News Today: Here comes some excellent news for the Central authorities workers forward of the festive season. The Centre is prone to improve the dearness allowance for Central authorities workers by 4 p.c, varied media studies claimed. Once it’s authorised, this would be the second hike in each dearness aid (DR) and dearness allowance (DA). Reports additional claimed that the DA hike is prone to be introduced in September. Currently, the dearness allowance for the central authorities workers stands at 50 p.c and with the most recent hike in September, the overall DA wil go as much as 54 p.c.