Members of parliament’s standing committee on public accounts on Wednesday lambasted an Unemployment Insurance Fund official for not accepting responsibility for Covid-19 Ters payments made to deceased people.
A heated exchange started when UIF acting commissioner Mzie Yawa was asked to explain why the UIF did not notice it was making payments to deceased people. Yawa told MPs it was due to initial miscommunication with the home affairs department.
“You have been making payments prior to Covid-19, so ordinarily these checks and balances should have been there. It’s just that Covid-19 has pushed the extent and scope of the work which you are doing. It’s everybody else and you are seemingly the victim of shortcomings of other people,” said Hlengwa.
Yawa responded: “I agree. We are not responding and trying to be angels and everyone [else] is the devil. The assurance we are giving is that now, all those things paid, from whatever the source is, we do not have those problems [any more].
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