Teachers In These Areas Lose Hardship Allowances
Following Teachers Service Commission‘s, TSC’s most recent attempt to recoup overpayments from teachers’ pay slips, teachers are now a nervous group. The hardship and housing allowances contain the overpayments. The government just made a step that is sure to hurt the hearts of many teachers.
It is planned to stop paying hardship assistance in places that have gotten bigger over time. According to the administration, these areas should be removed from the list of hardship areas because they are no longer in a difficult situation.
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Parliament will soon be presented with a report on the review of the hardship zones for further discussion. Teachers in the subject areas that will be covered have become anxious as a result. The topic has unnerved teachers who work in impoverished areas, and they are concerned about what the legislators might decide.
Depending on the severity and depth of the hardship, the report’s hard-hit locations have been further divided into categories.
The classification is described as follows:
- Extreme Hardship
- Average hardship
- Minimal Hardship
Such a designation opens the door to the potential of payment suspension in a few particular locations. This conversation has been initiated by a public petition to designate Rachuonyo North constituency as a hardship region. Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Moses Wetangula, read the petition.
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The following areas will no longer offer teachers hardship allowances.
The petitioner claims that Rachuonyo North sub county is in utter poverty. Numerous issues, such as poor student enrollment and severe understaffing, plague the local schools. Additionally, Karachuonyo North has been ignored even though tutors employed in nearby regions receive the hardship allowance.
The petition in question asks the national assembly to establish a set of standards for classifying regions as hardship areas or not in order to raise the morale of teachers and the education industry as a whole.
Teachers In These Areas Lose Hardship Allowances
The commission designated the territories indicated below as the official ASAL region and made them difficult to staff for the years 2021–2025. They consist of;
- Baringo North; Tiaty East, Tiaty West, and Marigat sub-counties in Baringo County
- Garissa County
- Suba and Mbita sub-counties in Homa Bay County
- Isiolo County
- Mashuuru, Loitoktok, and Kajiado West sub-counties in Kajiado County
- Kwale County
- Magarini and Ganze in Kilifi County
- Lamu County
- Mandera County
- Marsabit County
- Mumoni, Mutito North, and Tseikuru sub-counties in Kitui County
- Narok South and Narok North sub-counties in Narok County
- Samburu County
- Taita Taveta County
- Tana River County
- Turkana County
- Wajir County
- West Pokot County
DISCLAIMER
It should be noted that not all of the aforementioned regions qualify as hardship regions. Some areas do not apply to the entire county; rather, they only apply to certain subcounties. It should be mentioned that teachers in some areas of Nandi, Lungalunga Suba, Nyando, and Lungalunga Suba receive hardship allowance payments.
