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Moneyweb reports that it was revealed in response to parliamentary questions that about R161 million paid out from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF’s) Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) was to people who should not have received it.
The Ters scheme was only meant to support people in private employment who had seen their salaries cut as a result of their employers not being allowed to operate, or who saw their earnings slump as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. It was in no way allowed to support state employees, all of whom – excluding the cabinet and deputy ministers – received their full salaries during the crisis. The Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) reported that up to 9,494 employees on the government’s Persal salary payment system also got Covid-19 Ters payments. This is commonly referred to as ‘double-dipping’. The DEL also said there were 78 people on the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) salary payment system who were suspected of double-dipping. The total number of state employees suspected of getting a salary as well as a Ters payment was 9,572 and the total amount paid to them was R41,337,376. The DEL said it was working with the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to look into the issue. Government employees were not the only ones suspected of getting irregular payments. The DEL found that there were thousands of people who were also receiving disability and old age grants, as well as Ters payments.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Larry Claasen at Moneyweb
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