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From the looting dead to invisible call centre agents: massive email, call backlog at UIF | News24

The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) - who earlier this week heard how government officials, soldiers and "dead" people looted the Unemployment Insurance Fund's TERS Covid-19 benefit - found a backlog of 444 000 emails at the fund during a visit on Friday.

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