Austerity measures being implemented by the new administration are gathering pace, following the removal of six allowances on civil servants payslip by the Salary and Remuneration Commission (SRC).

On Monday, the body announced the order will affect all civil servants across various job groups working in different Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Some of the allowances that will not be are plenary sitting allowance, ministerial allowance and taxable car allowance.

Others include; retreat allowance, sitting allowance for institutional internal committees and taskforce allowance for institutional internal committees.

Last year, William Ruto instructed the finance ministry on Thursday to cut 300 billion shillings ($2.5 billion) from annual government spending this year, to bring the country “back to sanity”.

Ruto said he aimed to bring the recurrent expenditure down further this year by an undisclosed amount, in a bid to achieve a recurrent budget surplus by the third year.