The dead, people too young to work, Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) employees and SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries looted almost R120 million from the UIF Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) benefit between 1 April and 30 September.
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Auditor-General recently told the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) that just more than 6 000 government officials looted more than R41 million from the money supposed to provide relief to unemployed people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, soldiers, inmates and the faithfully departed all claimed from the UIF's TERS for Covid-19 benefits.
