THE Department of Employment and Labour has welcomed the Special Investigation Unit’s (SIU) probe into allegations of corruption and maladministration of the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s special COVID-19 TERS benefits.
This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a proclamation authorising the SIU to “investigate any unlawful or improper conduct in the procurement of any goods, works and services during or related to the national state of disaster in any state institution.”
The department’s Director-General Thobile Lamati said: “We welcome the probe into allegations of possible corruption and maladministration into the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s [UIF] special COVID-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) benefits”.
In a statement on Wednesday, Lamati said the department has been working with the SIU in any event when the first probe was launched.
“We are just as anxious to get to the bottom of the allegations and to gain sight to all the facts and which would hopefully
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