A week after the government left the interest rates of small savings schemes such as Public Provident Fund (PPF) and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) unchanged, it announced on Tuesday that interest rates for the General Provident Fund (GPF) will also stay the same. GPF will continue paying the interest rate of 7.1 per cent per annum from October to December 2021, according to a circular issued on the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) website.