More than 4,000 Covid-19 related UIF claims were made on behalf of people who had died.
Some of the delays were caused by the fact that some employees had not been registered with the UIF, which then had to"verify their existence" with Sars. In April there 218,548 such cases and 102,397 in May.
He said it was compulsory for companies to declare all employees with the fund and to pay over UIF contributions according to the Unemployment Insurance Act, but this had not been the case with some. The department said it had stated that companies or entities had to have been registered for UIF before March 15, but in April it received 18,648 claims and 3,052 in May - all of which could not be processed.
“We could not and still cannot pay in the cases of double-dipping and we made this very clear at the beginning. The Covid-19 benefits necessitated not only new policies and directions, but also a major system change to cope with a tenfold increase in benefit payments,” said Maruping.
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