The Ministry of Finance has announced that the Senior Citizens’ Savings Scheme (SCSS) will now give a return of 7.6 per cent, or 20 basis points more than the prevailing 7.4 per cent per annum during the October-December quarter of 2022. This follows the recent hike of 50 basis points (bps) in repo rate by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on September 30, 2022.