Question NW2932 to the Minister of Employment and Labour
21 September 2023 - NW2932
Le Goff, Mr T to ask the Minister of Employment and Labour
On what date is it envisaged that the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) will address the extensive backlogs in the processing of UIF COVID-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme claims?
Reply:
The Unemployment Insurance Fund processed all the Covid-19 claims for all the lockdown periods. The outstanding applications are those applications that were processed by UIF and were never paid as they failed validations and verifications. UIF is currently re-processing Covid-19 applications that were corrected and updated by employers or where employers have submitted any missing information.
This continuous processing is done by UIF to ensure that all the employers and employees receive their due benefits upon correction from employers.
The timeframe of when all these applications will be paid is heavily dependent on employers providing complete, accurate and corrected employees’ information.