LAURA DU PREEZ: Who failed the bus driver who cashed in his pension?
He is one of many South Africans whose pension savings are their only plan B
28 June 2020 - 00:21
Three months after the lockdown began, hundreds of thousands of employees have still not received the promised Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) benefits from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF).
This led a 38-year-old bus driver to resign his job in the hopes of accessing his pension savings to feed his children and pay his rent, the Sowetan reported recently...
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