• TERS Benefit extended - Online submission template

    The Minster of Employment and Labour has extended the TERS benefit from 16 March 2021 to 25 July 2021. Click to read more TERS Benefit Extended Our Product Delivery Team have reviewed the TERS Extension Employer Letter dated 18 July 2021, and an updated…
  • TERS Benefit Extended

    The Minster of Employment and Labour has extended the TERS benefit from 16 March 2021 to 25 July 2021. Please click here to view the new Direction. Currently no new CVS template has been made available by the Fund for this application period and it…
  • TERS Benefit Extended - Update

    The Minster of Employment and Labour has published a new Direction. Please click here to view the new Direction. The changes contained in the new Direction are indicated in this original post in red: TERS Benefit Extended from 16 October 2020 to 15…
  • TERS extension letter to employers dated 06/04/2021

    We are aware that some employers have received TERS letters dated 06/04/2021. The letter was sent to all employers registered for TERS earlier this month related to claims on the online portal. The information outlined in the letter has no impact…
  • Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional Support Newsflash March 2021

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  • TERS Benefit Extended from 16 October 2020 to 15 March 2021

    The Minster of Employment and Labour has extended the TERS benefit from 16 October 2020 to 15 March 2021. Please click here to view the new Direction. The Fund has created a new template with one change to column O (Remuneration for Work Done or Work…
  • Withdrawal of TERS Effective 15 October 2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour has withdrawn the Covid-19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) effective 15 October 2020. Qualifying employers can claim TERS for qualifying employees until 15 October 2020, after this, TERS will no…
  • TERS Benefit Extended until 15 November 2020

    According to Government Gazette 43693 , the TERS benefit shall remain in operation for as long as the declaration of Covid-19, in terms of the National Disaster Management Act, as a national disaster subsist or until withdrawn by the Minister, whichever…
  • New deadlines for TERS benefit applications

    TERS benefit applications for March 2020 to May 2020 will close on 25 September 2020, TERS benefit applications for June 2020 will close on 15 October 2020, and TERS benefit applications for July to 15 September 2020 will close 30 October 2020 …
  • TERS benefits extended until 15 September 2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour published a new TERS Direction. This Direction is effective 16 August 2020 and shall remain in operation for as long as the declaration of the Covid-19, in terms of the National Disaster Management Act, as a national…
  • C19 TERS Report: Updated report now available with new selection option "BCEA Remuneration" (for period 1 June - 15 August)

    An updated version to the TERS Data Report was deployed (31 August 2020) and is now available. This version of the report includes the following changes: The option to select BCEA Remuneration as UIF Remuneration. The values extracted will be based…
  • C19 TERS Report: Extension of TERS benefit and new TERS Direction (19/08/2020)

    The South African Minister of Employment and Labour published a new TERS Direction . This Direction is effective 27 June 2020 and extends the TERS benefits until 15 August 2020 with new rules. Below is a summary of the changes/new information. Categories…
  • Extension of Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) benefit until 15 August 2020

    The Department of Employment and Labour Ministry has extended the TERS benefit until the 15th of August 2020, to align with the extension of the national state of disaster by the President of the Republic of South Africa.. The benefit structure and…
  • TERS Report: Updated report now available with an additional option "UIF Remuneration" for the field Leave Income (during Shutdown)

    An updated version to the TERS Data Report is now available This version of the report includes the option to include the current month UIF Remuneration in the Leave Income/Remuneration (during Shutdown) field. Click here for guidelines on how to…
  • Covid-19 TERS: Benefit Application Process Guidelines

    The Department of Employment and Labour has published a TERS Guide on what happens after application as well as a video explaining and illustrating the online TERS application procedure. To access the guide, click here To watch the video, click…
  • C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) - Amended Directive released 15/05/2020

    The Minister of Employment and Labour has issued a new amended TERS Directive . Previous posts related to the TERS Directive: COVID-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (RSA) (Released 26/03/2020) C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer…
  • Updated Important Information: Release 5.4c

    The following message has been updated on the landing page of Sage Business Cloud Payroll Professional: Updated (27/05/2020) National Treasury and SARS published a second draft Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill on 19 May 2020. This revised draft…
  • TERS ANNUAL LEAVE REIMBURSEMENT

    Good Day Everyone, Our company has received our TERS payouts. Our staff had to take annual leave. I need to reimburse the annual leave with the TERS payouts. Does anyone know how to calculate it? Or do I simply divide the TERS amount received with the…
  • C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) - Amended Directive released 04/05/2020

    The South African Minister of Employment and Labour has issued a new amended TERS Directive . Al the changes in the new directive are indicated in red. Summary of changes: If the employer should close its operations (or part of its operations…
  • TERS - ADVANCE SALARY FOR UIF CLAIM

    We have applied for the UIF Ters fund, and my boss paid all of the employees a small amount of their salaries as a UIF claim. I am struggling to understand how this is to be captured on the payroll system, i have been on hold for support for 2 hours already…
  • Latest TERS report still not uploading

    Good day, After recent notification from SAGE the TERS report has been amended. I have re-run the reports, however we still can't seem to upload onto the TERS website. Can anyone please assist. Regards Vanessa
  • C19 TERS Report: FAQ documents and Solution User Guide made available by the Department of Employment and Labour

    The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) has published a new TERS FAQ document and a TERS Solution User Guide . These documents contain more information on how the TERS benefit is calculated, which employees and employers qualify for the benefit…
  • TERS Report Error

    Good Day We are trying to pull the report we have imported. Everytime it takes you through until it hits the Generate Report page then it says File Does not exists(but it has been copied in). What now?
  • UIF-Covid 19 TERS National Disaster Application system now available (15/04/2020)

    The Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) has created an online system for TERS applications. Please see link below to access the online system. https://uifecc.labour.gov.za/covid19/ The users can either apply using the online system or email…
  • C19 TERS (Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme) Export Report for Payroll Professional (Released 13 April 2020) - updated 29 April 2020

    During the COVID-19 lockdown period, most companies have shut down/closed and for some employers it is not economically possible to continue to pay employees. In this case, the Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL) have created a special benefit…