Claiming When Losing a Portion of Earnings / Contributors to Nominate a Beneficiary / Domestic and Small Employers to Report and Pay Annually
The Minister of Labour has made the following material changes to the regulations in the Schedule, as published in Government Gazette 42140 No R 1434:
- A “small enterprise” definition has been added to the regulation as contemplated in section 1 of the National Small Enterprise Act, 1996 (No. 102 of 1996).
- The UI Amendment Act added section 12(1B) to the Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that a contributor who loses a portion of his income due to reduced working time is entitled to benefits (despite still being employed) if the contributor’s total income falls below the benefit level that the contributor would have received if he had become wholly unemployed.
- Contributors may nominate a beneficiary by submitting the new nomination form UI 53 to the Fund immediately on commencement of employment. If a contributor did not, before his or her death, complete the nomination form at the commencement of new employment, the Fund must accept a nomination form completed at the previous employer as valid.
- Employers must provide the Commissioner with the information in terms of their employees by submitting the declaration electronically or by completing form UI 19.
- Domestic and small enterprise employers may declare employees and contributions annually provided that the contributor’s services are not terminated in which case the declaration must be done on termination.
- Forms UI 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3, 4, 5, 6A and 19 have been changed. Examples of the forms included in Government Gazette No. 42140.
- Form UI 53 (beneficiaries) has been added by the regulation.