Some trucking companies have received UIF crisis money as part of the Covid-19 Temporary Relief scheme (TERS). The Unemployment Insurance Fund released an online list of all the employers who have received the special grant to pay their staff. Workers can now check online whether their employers have been paid. The first payment covered five weeks […]
Government has outlined the process for the application of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant for individuals who are currently unemployed. Addressing a media briefing on Wednesday in Pretoria, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said the qualifying applicants will be paid R350 per month from May – October 2020. The grant forms part of
The Unemployment Insurance Fund has successfully tweaked its website to enable employers, employees, and organised labour to check online, the status of applications for the COVID-19 TERS scheme. UIF is helping employers who are struggling financially through the Covid-19 crisis to pay salaries. The development was done in response to a number of queries where
The Labour Department has annouunced that employees whose companies deducted UIF deductions from their salaries and did not forward payments to the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) will receive the temporary employee relief (TRT). The fund will still pay the affected workers the TRT scheme benefit and then recover those monies from employers. “This was not
If your company is registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and it was forced to close by the lockdown to curb the spread of the COVID-19 it can benefit from the COVID-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (COVID-19 Ters). There has been some confusion about how employees who will not be paid during the lockdown
Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) commissioner Teboho Maruping on Thursday appealed to companies to apply for benefits on behalf of their employees in order to not clog the system. It’s no secret that workers and their bosses were being hit-hard by the COVID-19 national lockdown. There was, however, some good news. The UIF is standing by to help relieve
