75 criminal cases opened over TERS fraud: Nxesi

Parliament - The Unemployment Insurance Fund has instituted 75 criminal cases in relation to fraud around its Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme payments during the Covid-19 pandemic, Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi said on Tuesday.

This included 38 cases of employers withholding benefits or only partially paying these over to their staff, eight cases where incorrect banking details were supplied and 90 cases of suspected outright fraud, including claims by ghost applicants, and employers and their staff colluding to submit false claims.

"For others who returned overpayments – conscience is a wonderful thing, but it also helps if you know that the auditor-general is looking into the payments and that the SIU will be investigating," he said. He warned, however, that since Makwetu's second report covers the period before controls were tightened, it might yield similar observations to the first.There are calls at the moment for the benefit to be extended for another month, since the government opted to extend the state of disaster until November 15.

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