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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>DURBAN – NEARLY 600 000 employees who have claimed the Temporary Employment Relief Scheme (Ters) benefits had now lost their jobs.<\/p>\n

The UIF this week said that 578 677 of those who claimed Ters have joined the queues of the unemployed.<\/p>\n

UIF spokesperson Makhosonke Buthelezi said that the fund paid 1 787 268 beneficiaries more than R10 billion between 26 March 2020 to 19 January 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, reports from CCMA show that this has increased by 40 percent, posing a claims increase for UIF,\u201d said Buthelezi.<\/p>\n

The UIF said an increase of 40 percent in Section 189 and Section 189A notices could result in additional normal unemployment claims.<\/p>\n

It said it expected an increase in the claims for unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n

Buthelezi said that the massive job losses had a huge impact on South Africa\u2019s economy, citizens and families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen workers are retrenched or companies close down, it has a substantial and detrimental knock-on effect which includes a reduction in tax revenue collection,\u201d Buthelezi said. \u201cIt also affects the Fund\u2019s revenue as contributions decline, while claims increase.\u201d<\/p>\n

In September, Statistics South Africa said that its quarterly labour force survey showed that 2.2m more people lost their jobs in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Trade union federation Fedusa has called for a moratorium on all retrenchments and future potential processes. Fedusa said it believed that all possible avenues should be considered \u201cinstead of continuously using workers as scapegoats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fedusa general secretary Riefdah Ajam said the SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) needed to apply the same amount of conviction in 2021 to continue to catalyse the soft landing, stability and liquidity to assist workers entrapped in debt due to the lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Sarb was very instrumental in the process, it needs to continue on this trajectory, as the Loan Guarantee Schemes (LGS) and tax relief measures have yet to deliver the results that were promised, considering that only a meagre R15 billion of the R200 billion capacity relief to SMME\u2019s were provided,\u201d said Ajam.<\/p>\n

FNB said it had paid over R200m worth of retrenchment claims thereby aiding in protecting customers against financial losses as a result of retrenchment.<\/p>\n

FNB Life head for Credit Life Heetal Govindjee said that due to the uncertainty in the market, it was very difficult to anticipate what will happen going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still observing higher retrenchment levels than prior to March 2020 but have seen a marked decline in retrenchment rates since May last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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