TimesLIVE reports that according to the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL), the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has to date paid in excess of R15bn to beneficiaries of the company relief scheme.  

On 16 April the fund paid the first batch of Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefits to employers on behalf of workers.  Applications for May opened at midnight on Tuesday.  But, UIF commissioner Teboho Maruping apologised for a break in its network, which affected plans to capture the May Covid-19 Ters online applications.  He said they were “doing everything in our power to ensure that the problem is resolved today (Wednesday) so that we can start processing May applications immediately.”  Maruping promised that the UIF would make a public announcement once the system had been restored.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgaugelo Masweneng at TimesLIVE
• Read too, DA demands details on UIF’s Covid-19 relief payments and says its website is constantly offline, at EWN

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