The department of employment and labour has extended the Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme benefit until August 15.
Covid19-Ters benefits will be extended until August 15, with the benefit structure and existing criteria remaining the same.Temporary Employee Relief Scheme benefit until August 15.
Last month, the department indicated the Unemployment Insurance Fund would pay workers their relief payments under the Covid-19 Ters scheme until the end of June. The payments were intended as a stopgap for three months, until such time that the lockdown restrictions were eased and the economy slowly reopened.
“To date some R34bn in benefits has been distributed through employers in 7.4-million payments to recipients. This was in line with the commitment to provide income support for three months,” Moloi said. “It gives me great pleasure to announce that, following due diligence and consultation with the UIF actuaries, and in line with the president’s decision to extend the life of the Disaster Management Act until August 15, we have taken the decision to similarly extend the Covid-19 Ters benefit until August 15 2020,” Moloi said.“Applications for April and May will be closed by the end of July 2020, although applications already received for these two months will be processed,” she said.
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