Covid-19, lockdown and your UIF benefits

THE lockdown has brought business to a grinding halt – and for many employees no work means no pay. Luckily, the government has thrown them a much-needed lifeline in the form of a temporary employee and employer relief scheme called C19 TERS.

There are also other benefits that can be claimed from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) – but you can’t claim from C19 TERS and UIF simultaneously. Here’s how it works.

1 C19 TERS

This relief scheme helps employers cover salaries if their business has had to temporarily shut down for three months or less because of the pandemic. It applies to the lockdown period and can either be a partial or complete shutdown of the business. It will pay out for a