Hardship allowance for teachers- 2021/2025

TSC News Today- The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) pays a monthly hardship allowance to a section of teachers. 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.

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Current Hardship allowance rates

In December, 2014, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, SRC, reviewed hardship allowance to be paid at a flat rate for all equivalent grades/ job groups. The Commission effectively abolished the pegging of the hardship allowance as a percentage of basic pay.

The table below summarizes the monthly hardship allowance rates that are paid to teachers working in hardship areas; per job group:

S/NOGRADETSC SCALEFORMER JOB GROUPHardship Allowance- in Kshs per Month
1B55G6,600
2C16H8,200
3C27I10,900
4C38J12,300
5C49K14,650
6C510L17,100
7D111M27,300
8D212N27,300
9D313P31,500
10D414Q31,500
11D515 R38,100
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Current TSC designated hardship areas.

TSC has designated various areas as hardship. The areas considered as hardship include those that are prone to terrorism, famine and aridity. As of 2012, TSC had about 38 areas approved as hardship.

Currently, teachers teaching in schools located in some parts of the following counties receive monthly hardship allowances.

S/NO.AREA/ COUNTY
1Garissa County
2Isiolo County
3Kilifi County
4Kwale County
5Lamu County
6Mandera County
7Marsabit County
8Narok County
9Samburu County
10Taita Taveta County
11Tana River County
12Turkana
13Wajir County
14West Pokot County
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3 thoughts on “Hardship allowance for teachers- 2021/2025”

  1. Commuter allowance for teachers working in marsabit county boarding Ethiopia is too little.teachers only access their delocalized families only during one week holiday.requesting the ministry and TSC to consider them for better service delivery.

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