Technical glitches on the UIF website are causing frustration as many people have not been able to submit claims from its Covid-19 relief fund.
“We have not started accepting temporary employer-employee relief scheme applications for May yet. Kindly keep visiting our website for the latest updates for when we start accepting applications,” the site read., the uFiling website has not been working properly since it was relaunched on April 1.
Makhosonke Buthelezi, the UIF’s director of communication and marketing, said the uFiling website was working, but had “some challenges” which the labour department hoped to resolve by the end of the [email protected] week, labour minister Thulas Nxesi said the department would investigate the due diligence of Covid-19 Ters benefits to avoid processing fraudulent claims.
“With these huge payments, inevitably you will attract criminals and companies colluding with employees to try and fleece the coffers. We will be engaging the services of the auditor-general and auditing firms to ensure we comb through all the payments”, Nxesi said.labour department saidThis includes benefits for more than 2-million workers and more than 161,500 companies that launched claims on their behalf.
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