The central government announced the 8th Pay Commission in January this year, as the 7th Pay Commission completes its 10-year cycle in 2025.

Since the central government announced the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the 8th Pay Commission, many employee and pensioner groups have been sending letters to the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister. They have asked that the ToR be changed so that pension revision is clearly included. On Tuesday (December 2, 2025), the Finance Ministry told the Rajya Sabha that the 8th Pay Commission will indeed give recommendations on revising pensions for central government employees.

The clarification came in response to an unstarred question by MPs Javed Ali Khan and Ramji Lal Suman, who asked whether pension revision was being left out of the 8th CPC.

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