Members of parliament’s standing committee on public accounts on Wednesday lambasted an Unemployment Insurance Fund official for not accepting responsibility for Covid-19 Ters payments made to deceased people.
Employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi conceded there was a problem with the department's IT system. File image.Members of parliament’s standing committee on public accounts on Wednesday lambasted an Unemployment Insurance Fund official for not accepting responsibility for Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme payments to deceased people.
The SIU told parliament that during the investigation period a total of 13,447,006 employees received Ters payments or benefits from the UIF. A heated exchange started when UIF acting commissioner Mzie Yawa was asked to explain why the UIF did not notice it was making payments to deceased people. Yawa told MPs it was due to initial miscommunication with the home affairs department.
“This is your system and you should be the ones who innovate and create a functional and effective environment. When I listen to your response, I hear that it is home affairs, it is fictitious employers, it's the families who bury the dead and not us.” EFF MP Veronica Mente raised concerns about risk assessment by service providers who designed the system to make payments.
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