News / E-Bulletin
Dec 8,2020
by Jacques van Wyk, Director; Andre van Heerden, Senior Associate; and Thabisa Yantolo, Candidate Attorney
On 27 November 2020 the Department of Employment and Labour (“Department”) and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (“UIF”) announced that there would be “post-verification exercises” (i.e. audits) conducted on employers who received the TERS benefit on behalf of their employees. These audits will be conducted by audit firms from 1 December 2020 for a period of 6 months.
According to the Department and the UIF, the following documents should be kept readily available, either in hard copy or electronic format, in anticipation of the audit (not an exhaustive list):
The Department and the UIF advise that the above list is merely the minimum documents required. We therefore recommend that, in addition to the above mentioned documents, employers have the following additional documents readily available:
The above documents may assist in proving that the business and the employees were entitled to the TERS benefit. If any documents were submitted via email, we advise that a copy of the email/s also be kept readily available.
On 4 December 2020 the Department and UIF published a letter in which they confirmed that auditors will halt the audits on 18 December 2020 and resume on 4 January 2021.
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