700,000 applications have not been paid due to this error

The employees would have received R3 billion if they were registered. More than 113,000 businesses submitted Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme.

The companies need to register the employees with the UIF before they can claim.

The UIF says it is concerned about the high number of undeclared workers on whose behalf employers are putting in claims.

"For us to pay any claim we must find the employee on our system and it is the employer’s duty to declare the employee to us," says Makhosonke Buthelezi, director of communication and marketing at the UIF.  

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