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10 TSC ALLOWANCES FOR TEACHERS, A COMPLETE LIST: TYPE OF TSC ALLOWANCE, PAYMENT TERMS AND CONDITIONS, HOW TO APPLY & TERMINATION

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10 TSC ALLOWANCES FOR TEACHERS, A COMPLETE LIST: TYPE OF TSC ALLOWANCE, PAYMENT TERMS, AND CONDITIONS, HOW TO APPLY & TERMINATION

BELOW IS A DETAILED GUIDE TO ALL TSC ALLOWANCES:  NUMBER OF TSC ALLOWANCES, TYPE OF TSC ALLOWANCE, HOW TO APPLY & WHEN THE ALLOWANCES CAN BE GRANTED-CONDITIONS

The Teachers Service Commission, TSC provides a total of 10 allowances for its employees (teachers).

This article provides a complete list of all TSC Allowances, how to apply for them and when they can be paid to teachers (specified conditions)

Note: The remunerative and reimbursable allowances are not pensionable save for responsibility allowance if earned up to and including the last date of retirement

  1. TSC, Rental House allowance

This type of TSC Allowance applies to all teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission under permanent and pensionable terms.

The rate however differs depending on the teacher’s current grade (job group). Teachers who have served the Commission for a relatively long time are entitled to a better house allowance compared to those who have just been absorbed by the Commission.

In case a teacher is on interdiction and is receiving half of the salary, the TSC will continue paying the full house allowance until the case is determined.

KUPPET wants house allowance to be harmonized in the next CBA beginning in 2022.

 

  1. TSC, Commuter Allowance

This allowance is payable to all TSC teachers. The rate of payment differs based on the teacher’s current grade (job group) and location.

A teacher who has been interdicted and is consequently on half salary is not entitled to a commuter allowance.

  1. TSC, Responsibility Allowance

This allowance is paid to teachers with extra responsibilities that are heads of institutions, deputy heads, and senior teachers in Job Group K and below.

Responsibility allowance shall be pensionable only if a teacher receives the allowance on the day immediately before retirement.

TSC responsibility allowance will only be halted if a teacher stops performing administrative duties.

How to claim your TSC Responsibility allowance

Any teacher entitled to the responsibility allowance can claim by following the guidelines stipulated in Form J.

  1. TSC, Special School Allowance

This allowance is subject to review by the Commission from time to time. It can be claimed by teachers with skills in special needs education and who are assigned to a special school or special unit.

How to apply for TSC Special Allowance

Teachers wishing to claim for TSC Special allowance should do so in writing through the school head.

This special allowance can only be stopped by the Commission if the teacher stops offering the special services.

  1. TSC, Reader’s, facilitation or aid allowance

This allowance is paid to teachers with special needs such as the blind, deaf, dumb, or physically disabled.

This allowance is certified by the National Council of Persons With Disabilities, indicating the extent of the disability or any other written law.

  1. TSC, Transfer allowance

The commission pays transfer allowance if it is responsible for the transfer of a teacher from one sub-County to the other.

However, if a teacher initiates the transfer, then the Commission shall not pay the allowance.

 

  1. TSC, Travelling Expense Allowance

The Commission also reimburses traveling expenses based on Government rates including that of a spouse and four unmarried children who are dependent on the teacher and below the age of 22 if:

-The teacher has been posted to County other than his or her home county on the first appointment.

-A teacher is posted to a place designated and gazette as arid and semi-arid lands so long as the teacher does not hail from that particular area. The teacher is entitled to this allowance three times every financial year.

– the TSC initiates the termination of the teacher’s appointment and if the school and his home area are not within the same county.

-A teacher is not guilty at the end of a disciplinary process.

-A teacher who was working away from his or her home county retires.

-A teacher travels to act as a witness on the Commission’s behalf. This is however an optional allowance, it depends on the TSC’s discretion.

  1. TSC, Annual Leave Allowance

This is paid to all teachers once a year depending on the teacher’s grade (job group).

  1. TSC, Hardship Allowance

This is paid to teachers offering their services in schools designated and gazette as TSC hardship areas.

  1. TSC, Special Duty Allowance

This allowance is paid to teachers who, in the absence of qualified teachers, have been appointed by the Commission to perform administrative duties that do not commensurate to the teacher’s grades and who are stationed in arid and semi-arid areas.

  1. TSC, Subsistence Allowance

This is paid to a teacher who attends a course, seminar, workshop, or any assignment outside the country.

The rates are usually determined based on government rates that are:

-A quarter per diem if a teacher’s course is fully sponsored

-Full per diem where a teacher’s course is not fully sponsored.

 

How to Apply for a TSC Subsistence Allowance

Application for TSC Subsistence allowance should be made as set out in Form L under the twenty-sixth schedule. It should be accompanied by relevant documents authorizing and approving the course.

 

 

 

 

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TSC: List of TSC Allowances to be scrapped or slashed by Commission in 2021

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TSC: List of TSC Allowances to be scrapped or slashed by Commission in 2021

TSC: List of TSC Allowances to be scrapped or slashed by Commission in 2021

TSC allowances news 2021– The Salaries and Remuneration Commission, SRC, has hatched a major shake-up that will see several civil employees including teachers deprived of a good number of allowances.

List of Allowances

The radical surgery will see some of the allowances being abolished and others restructured.

A 2019 study by SRC identified 247 allowances paid to public officers, which accounted for 48 percent of the total wage bill as of 2019. This was against 31 allowances in 1999. The Public Finance Management (PFM) Act 2015 stipulates that the national government’s expenditure on the wage bill should not exceed 35 percent of ordinary revenue.

In the current salaries review, exercise SRC aims at minimizing disparities in gross remuneration package with the ultimate aim being to cap allowances at 40 percent of basic pay.

While addressing journalists, recently, Chairperson Lyn Mengich said the new cycle may take effect six months after June, a time when the commission projects to have completed the review.

“Everybody will be affected. Some will impact more on other sectors of the employees. New employees will be affected where an allowance is being abolished. If provided for in a contractual obligation, it will not affect immediate staff enjoying that benefit,” She said.

Why SRC is reviewing the allowances

To avoid duplication, redundancy, disparities, and varied eligibility criteria, allowances payable in the Public Service shall be harmonized and streamlined as follows:

Allowances and benefits that are paid for similar purposes but have different names shall be merged and renamed;

Allowances and benefits whose rates are not commensurate with the intended purpose shall be restructured;

Allowances and benefits whose current form does not change shall be retained; and

Allowances and benefits whose rationale for payment is redundant and or overlaps with that of the basic salary shall be abolished.

The Commission says allowances and benefits shall not be paid for purposes that are already compensated for in the basic salary thus resulting in a remuneration package that exceeds the relative worth of a job.

Streamlining of Allowances and Benefits

To avoid duplication, redundancy, disparities, and varied eligibility criteria, allowances payable in the Public Service shall be streamlined by:

Merging and renaming allowances and benefits that are paid for similar purposes but have different names;
Restructuring allowances and benefits whose rates are not commensurate with the intended purpose;
Retaining allowances and benefits whose current form does not change; and
Abolishing allowances and benefits whose rationale for payment is redundant and or overlaps with that of the basic salary.
Reviewed TSC allowances

TSC allowances that will be restructured include:

Annual Leave Allowance
It is an allowance that is paid once a year to teachers while on leave; usually paid with the January salaries. The Commission is intending to review this allowance due to the following reasons:

The wide banding of job group eligible for Annual Leave Allowance is discriminative;
There is a disparity in the rates payable in the Public Service.
Some public sector institutions pay Annual Leave Allowance as a percentage of the basic salary, other institutions pay Annual Leave Allowance as an absolute figure.
Some public institutions allow for the commutation of non-utilized leave days for cash.

Consequently, this is how the annual leave should be paid;

The Annual Leave Allowance shall be paid in absolute figure and not a percentage of basic salary. Indeed, this how TSC pays the annual leave for teachers, and hence no many changes are expected here.

The SRC shall review the banding structure in the Annual Leave Allowance payments to provide clarity in banding and rates payable by the teacher’s grade.

Hardship Allowance
This is an allowance that is paid to teachers deployed in designated hardship areas. The allowance is meant to compensate teachers working in the Hardship Areas to compensate them for lack of basic social services and amenities, security risk, harsh climatic conditions, isolation, and family separation.

Some teachers are set to lose the hardship allowance because the designated hardship areas shall be reviewed, by the relevant government institution/s to reflect changes in designated hardship areas arising from benefits of devolution and Equalization Fund. This is because devolution has implied that Counties are no longer necessarily hardship areas since they are receiving equalization funds to promote development in the counties thereby addressing the characteristics of hardship areas.

Responsibility Allowance
This is an allowance paid to teachers in administrative posts. SRC has since abolished this allowance because the purpose for which the allowance is paid has been factored in the relative worth of the job through the job undertaken by the Commission. Indeed, this allowance was incorporated in the basic salaries for teachers holding administrative roles.

Medical Allowance
The allowances are paid alongside monthly salary based on the job group to cater for outpatient medical treatment. The allowance has now been abolished. Teachers lost their medical allowance some time back; and, part of it is paid to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF; which is a statutory deduction) and the remaining goes to the TSC procured medical insurance scheme, AON-Minet.

The following allowances shall not be modified:

S/N Allowance Name
1 Commuter Allowance
2 House Allowance
3 Disability Guide Allowance
4 Transfer Allowance