Auditor-general identifies dodgy Ters payments
The watchdog finds thousands of payments made to undeserving recipients, many of them illegal
02 September 2020 - 15:57
The auditor-general has found significant issues with government’s Covid-19 relief fund for workers, which resulted in overpayments, underpayments, the invalid rejection of beneficiaries, fraud and double-dipping.
Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu, who released the findings of his office’s Covid-19 relief funds audit on Wednesday, said that through analysing the payment data and checking the beneficiary information against other government databases, a high number of payments were flagged that required investigation...
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