Minister Nxesi must commit to a timeline on resumption of UIF Ters payments
16 September 2020
The Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, should commit to a timeline on the resumption of Covid-19 Ters payments by the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF).
Payments have been suspended indefinitely while the UIF works with the Department of Home Affairs and other government databases to verify about 5 million identity documents of Ters applicants.
This follows an investigation by the Auditor-General (AG) into financial irregularities with the Ters scheme, which found inter alia that the UIF paid:
R30 million to 4 161 people with invalid ID numbers;