Civil Service pay rise?

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Anybody else wondering if there'll be one?
I'm an AO, on 24.8k. Overtime is being cancelled imminently and I'm looking for promotion/outside of the CS because I'm single and live alone, and just can't afford it.
Have had 2 interviews for higher grade roles, but 2 months on I still haven't heard back which is ridiculous but unsurprising.
We might get 2% if we're lucky.

Dear god it’s about time! I’ve worked 25 years in the civil service, still haven’t got over £30k despite I’m now expected to help recruit people who’ll earn more than me immediately, or externally on apprenticeships that will earn them nearly the same after 6 months. My wages are approximately the same value as they were about 12 years ago.
The government of the day has total control over our salary, and the last lot used the squeeze because it was theirs to apply, despite all the bloody praise about us being “key workers” during the COVID pandemic.
I’d love to think the new lot value our hard work and professionalism more highly, but I’m not betting on it.

I'm a retired civil servant, since 2019. I got a 10:5% increase in my pension in April.

I'm all for the retired having a decent pension, but how can it possibly make sense that those of us no longer working, get a far better raise than those still working?

I'm not holding out any hope. They won't give civil servants a decent payrise and then start tightening up benefit rules.

It would be a political disaster