Housing Levy For Teachers To Be Refunded Cumulatively. Beginning in January 2024, teachers hired by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will get a reimbursement of the housing levy deductions that were improperly withheld from their paychecks.
On January 26, 2024, the court rejected the TSC’s plan to discontinue deducting 1.5% of teachers’ salaries from their paystubs, with the money going toward the housing fund instead, and to provide them a refund.
TSC began withholding the housing levy from teachers’ salaries on July 1, 2023, following President William Ruto’s signing of the proposed measure into law, which the Court later referred to as the contentious Finance measure 2023.
With the passage of this measure by the National Assembly, all Kenyan workers were required to contribute to the same.
Last month, several teachers had hope that they would receive their January housing Levy deductions refund after TSC boss, Dr.Nsncy Macharia regretted the January deductions say the court ruling had come after payroll had been processed.
Unfortunately, TSC repeated the same deductions in the month of February,2024, leaving many teachers shocked.
Housing Levy For Teachers To Be Refunded Cumulatively
The teachers unions, Kenya National Union of Teachers( KNUT) and the Kenya Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) have risen onto occasion demanding TSC to give an explanation for repeating the same mistake on illegal deductions.
The unions have given TSC days to come out clear on the same matter.
Incase the refund is realized at the end, then teachers will see 1.5 per cent of their basic salary returned in March ,2024 pay for two months at the rates given below per month.
TSC teacher’s job scale grade Basic pay per month monthly Housing Levy deductions refund per.month
D5 131,380 1,970.70
D5 131,380 1,970.70
D5 152,937 2,294
D5 157,656 2,364
D4 118,242 1,773
D4 121,890 1,828
D3 104,644 1,569
D3 104,644 1,569
D2 91,040 1,365
D1 77,840 1,167
D1 85,269 1,279
C5 62,272 934
C5 62,272 934
C5 62,272 934
C5 62,272 934
C5 62,272 934
C4 52,308 784
C4 52,308 784
C4 52,308 784
C4 52,308 784
C4 52,308 784
C3 43,147 647
C3 45,124 676
C3 47,183 707
C3 49,336 740
C3 51,588 773
C3 53,943 809
C2 34,955 524
C2 34,955 524
C2 34,955 524
C2 34,955 524
C2 36,280 544
C2 37,654 564
C2 39,081 586
C2 40,562 608
C2 42,O99 631
C2 49,694 745
C1 27,195 407
C1 28,755 431
C1 30,405 456
C1 32,149 482
C1 33,994 509
B5 21,756 326
B5 21,749 326
B5 23,787 356
B5 24,873 373
B5 26,008 390
B5 27,195 407