Cosatu Raises Concerns Over Uifs Lack Of Internal Controls

The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has raised concerns over the Unemployment Insurance Funds UIF lack of internal controls.

This after the Special Investigative Unit SIU revealed that the UIF paid out about R57-billion in fraudulent payments to government employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SIU was giving an update in Parliament today on the status of its investigations on the Department of Employment and Labour, UIF and TERS.

COSATU parliamentary coordinator Matthew Parks says they have long been calling for a modernised and cleansed UIF that serves workers and is free of looting.

"The UIF systems are very inefficient, so the consequence of that is that it enables a space for corruption, for fraud to take place, sometimes internally by people who work at the UIF.