Unpaid Benefits Campaign

The UBC is a coalition of community groups, advice offices, NGOs and groups of former workers, together asking where their pension or provident funds have gone

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Wrapping up #UBConference with thanks, commendations and a way mapped to move forward

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Ruth Nkambule, Ekurhuleni UBC: the vision and mission of the UBC must be widely shared #UBConference

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Priscilla Ranoko, Ekurhuleni UBC: WhatsApp should be used to share the movement's documents and for the campaign to grow

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MaNala Rampo, Orange Farm UBC: Branch members become despondent easily. We need to sustain branch activity keep members engaged #UBConference

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Final day of the #UBConference. Discussions turn to how to biuld the UBC

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Dr Weitz Botes presents on behalf of the Department of Health and the Compensation Commissioner for Occupational Diseases.

To learn more about claiming as an ex-mineworker watch his full presentation on our YouTube channel here: https://t.co/BQsXj01MGO

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Macua's Astone Chaole: Can DoH's compensation commission come to the Free State where we have many abandoned communities? They have the sense that the Tshiamiso Trust set up to pay out silicosis settlement is ripping them off

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Dr Weitz Botes, Dept of Health office of Compensation Commissioner: The legacy of mining is a wave damaging the present #UBConference

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Grounds for a class action but it'd be quicker to launch High Court test case, with claimants having the best evidence (payslips) and contesting 1 fun, 1 employer #UBConference

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COFI bill - Conduct of Financial Institutions bill to be submitted to parliament soon, proposes unclaimed benefits be centralised - details to be determined #UBConference

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Problems with legal tactic: claimants must prove money's owed. And where do you go to claim when funds are joined to others and there's no information shared with members?

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Hannine Drake, Pension Justice: Constitutional Court is increasingly interested in hearing pension law matters, based on S27 - the right access social security #UBConference

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Partnerships work. Partnership with the UBC can begin to move the mountain of unpaid benefits

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DoH office of compensation have been able to trace n trace beneficiaries by relating personal information across different databases - SASSA, Shoprite client, Capitec... #UBConference

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Correction of the crisis in unpaid benefits: What needs to be done to address the crisis? #UBConference resumes

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The struggle for Unpaid Benefits is a struggle shared by all- students, the elderly, workers, ex-workers, migrant labourers. We are all affected.

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Newton Masuku of @SAFTU_media speaks of the interconnectedness of South Africa’s social movements. Newton speaks of how 9 years ago many of the #FeesMustFall students could have had their issues addressed had their parents & grandparents had their pensions & benefits paid.

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Soyaphi Khoza is speaking on behalf of @fscasouthafrica about the work and campaigns the Financial Sector Conduct Authority is doing to address the Unpaid Benefits issue.

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William Casiwe, Cape Town ex-mineworker: When people Google, they find my name third on a Chamber of Mines list. Ex-mineworkers therefore are calling me to find out about their money. I don’t know how my name became one to call #UBConference

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