Simon Nare
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) heard on Thursday that the Road Accident Fund Act, together with the fund’s new Integrated Claims Management System, was effectively enabling the rich to get richer while denying poor crash victims direct access to compensation.
It also heard that claim backlogs currently stood at R250 000, and could not be logged into the new system. Clearing the backlog would take three to five years.
SCOPA was told it could cost a minimum of R100 000 just to register a compliant claim, due to the number of expert reports required.
Committee chairperson Songezo Zibi described this as “absolutely ridiculous”, saying most poor people simply could not afford that amount.
RAF senior officials were before SCOPA as part of their ongoing probe into the entity, to explain the new claims system, which requires multiple reports from medical, income, and other specialists, who charge high
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