The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) will do payment reruns this week for outstanding claims in the government’s wage protection scheme that could provide relief to workers who did not receive much-needed money during the first five months of the Covid-19 lockdown.

“The fund has been sporadically rerunning claims for the previous months, but this time we have decided to recycle all claims to ensure that those that have updated declarations and discrepancies are paid when we rerun the payments,” acting UIF commissioner Marsha Bronkhorst said. ..

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