When will July Ters applications open?
11 August 2020
The Minister of Employment and Labour, ThulasNxesi, must indicate when July applications for the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) Covid-19 Ters benefit will open.
He owes it to the anxious and desperate workers of South Africa, who aren’t sure when their next pay cheque will arrive.
The Ters scheme is due to come to an end on 15 August, and July applications still aren’t open.
Applications for May opened late, at midnight on 26 May. Applications for June opened late, on 24 June, and then closed almost immediately because of security and data breech issues, with functionality only restored on the weekend of 11 and 12 July. Now we are almost halfway through August and nobody is any the wiser about when July applications will open. We don’t know whether July applications will be considered separately from August applications, or whether the six-week bloc between 1 July and 15 August will be treated as a single pay period with a single application process.