DA condemns Minister of Employment and Labour for soft-pedalling claims crisis at Compensation Fund
26 February 2020
Minister Thulas Nxesi put on a shameful display at the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour this morning, soft-pedalling the monumental claims crisis at the Compensation Fund.
The Compensation Fund, which compensates radiologists, physical therapists, orthopaedic rehabilitation specialists and other medical practitioners to the tune of R5 billion every year for treating injured workers, has not settled most of the claims lodged with it since 1 October 2019.
At that time, the Compensation Fund migrated to a new electronic system, called CompEasy (S4i). But the website that is used to report accidents and lodge claims is almost completely dysfunctional.
Every day, my DA colleagues and I on the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour are inundated with desperate pleas from healthcare practitioners who cannot submit claims and who are therefore not being paid.