The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has recently paid out a total of R22.6 million to 4 942 former teaching and general assistants employed under Harry Gwala and iLembe District Municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal. While this is certainly welcome news for those affected, it is important to note that this payment does not amount to a living […]
The Hawks’ Provincial Head, Major General Ebrahim Kadwa welcomed the eight-year sentence meted out on a foreign national, Chisoko Songiso (32) who is a director of Lejiko Capital (Pty) Ltd by the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on 18 July 2022 for defrauding Covid-19 Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) funds […]
About R530 million of the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s money has been tracked back to Bounty Brand Holdings in the United Kingdom. Read more on EWN.
It has now been over a month since disciplinary hearings for 7 Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) officials – implicated in TERS fraud – took place, and the Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, is refusing to report on the outcome. Dr Michael Cardo, member of parliament and DA Shadow Minister for Employment and Labour […]
SOUTH AFRICA – The intervention by the Department of Employment and Labour through the cash injections into the economy via the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Covid19 TERS benefits programme helped mitigate the worst of the jobs bloodbath. Minister Nxesi notes positive role played by UIF through TERS and CCMA in mitigating the worst effects of the […]
The Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour today received an update on the case of suspended officials of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), accused of defrauding the department’s Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS). The officials were suspended following a report by the Auditor-General which discovered that about R170 million from the TERS fund meant for […]