Cape Town – The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) confirmed that it has embursed 43 333 workers in the Northern Cape province with almost half a billion rand collectively through the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Covid-19 TERS).
UIF Commissioner Teboho Maruping revealed these figures during a media briefing at the Department of Employment and Labour’s provincial office in Kimberley on Tuesday.
Maruping informed said that a total of R488 million was disbursed to workers in the Northern Cape Province, arising from 3 202 COVID-19 TERS applications that the UIF received from employers.
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“Our Forensic Auditors have been on the ground across the Northern Cape province as part of the ‘follow the money’ project and have thus far not detected any COVID-19 TERS fraud. This is quite pleasing and refreshing because for a change we see a positive story, one of the good corporate citizenry from employers.
“It also tells a story of caring employers because as we very well know, the Northern Cape is one of the poorest provinces in our country,” Maruping said.
The briefing heard that 10 employers were recently audited in the Northern Cape and it was found that all of them had paid the correct amounts of money to their workers at the right time.
The UIF is an entity of the Department of Employment and Labour, mandated to provide short-term financial relief benefits to qualifying and contributing workers and their beneficiaries.
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