Business Unity SA (BUSA) wants to put the South African UIF under administration. In the same vein as the South African Social Security Agency, the country’s Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is a social security endowment generated from payroll tax that provides unemployment and maternity benefits to workers.
UIF comes off every month from (reputably) employed persons’ pay cheques. And it is there as a safety net should you become injured or retrenched in your job. It’s not charity, it is your money that you earned during your job. However, so far in 2024, the UIF’s online services – including uFiling, UIF USSD services and UIF Mobile App – have been offline more often than not. This has caused untold frustration and hardship for the country’s vulnerable unemployed residents.
Following weeks of frustration and inoperability, UIF services did reportedly go back online on Thursday 17 October 2024. And the UIF says it extended its operating hours and opened …