*Additional List Of Hardship Areas And Their Corresponding Allowances Has Been Published By TSC*

The Teacher’s service commission updates hardship areas regularly. The commission maps various areas while considering different factors.

 

 

This areas also include the arid and semi-arid places that are usually affected by famine and/or terrorism.

 

 

Teachers posted in these areas are paid a monthly hardship allowance that acts as a motivating factor since they face life threatening conditions that range from poor working environment to health threats.

 

 

However, the Commission recently excluded Nyandarua county, Muranga county, Kandara sub-county, Kigumo sub-county, and Nyahururu from hardship areas due to improved infrastructure.

 

 

Therefore, teachers posted in these areas will no longer get a monthly hardship allowance.

 

TSC listed and approved a total of 38 hardship areas in 2012.

 

Some of the factors considered are:

 

Limited services and social amenities

 

High level of insecurity and/or probability to security threats.

 

Harsh climate conditions such as floods, drought.

 

Lack of sufficient food.

 

Inadequate means of transport and communication networks.

 

Below is a list of counties that have been listed under hardship areas;

 

Mandera County

Turkana County

SamburU County

Wajir County

West Pokot County

Narok County

Garissa County

Marsabit County

Isiolo County

Tana River County

Lamu County

Kilifi County

Kwale County

Taita Taveta County

Recently, the commission added 4 new hardship areas due to the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

 

The added counties include,

 

Baringo North. The areas include;

Tiaty East, Tiaty West and Marigat sub-counties.

 

Kajiado county- loitoktok, mashuuru and Kajiado west

Kitui County- Mumoni, Mutito North and Teikuru sub-counties

Homa baycounty- suba and Mbita sub counties

Allowances

 

The hardship allowance is paid at a flat rate. In 2014, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission reviewed hardship allowances and abolished the percentage of basic pay.

 

The table below shows TSC hardship allowance per job group

 

GRADE SCALE

MONTHLY HARDSHIP

 

ALLOWANCE

 

B5 5 6,600

C1 6 8,200

C2 7 10,900

C3 8 12,300

C4 9 14,650

C5 10 17,100

D1 11 27,300

D2 12 27,200

D3 13 31,500

D4 14 31,500

D5 15 38,100

NOTE: Not all schools in the above listed counties are captured by the Teachers Service Commission as Hardship centers.