1. The Compensation Fund has taken cognisance of the negative impacts of Covid-19 on businesses and their payrolls and as such have increased the 30% variance threshold in earnings limit to 50%. This consideration will drastically reduce the number of employers who may be flagged for audits rendering them unable to generate their Letters of Good Standing.
Where required based on the outcome of the assessments, additional contract resources will be sourced to assist with audits during this period.
2. Supporting documents are not required with the submission of returns. These documents are required in instances where employers are flagged for audit or in support of applications for revision of assessments.
3. The process of applying for estimates is an established process for employers. Once an estimate is applied for, employers are afforded a period of 180 days to apply for a revision of assessment.
4. As indicated above, employers are not required to submit these documents on the ROE Online system. Where they are flagged for audit, they get an automated response letter with details of documents they need to submit for audit and email addresses they need to submit these documents to. Alternatively supporting documents can be submitted through the labour centres or arrangements could be made with inspection services to collect the documents.
5. The current backlogs are 8300 audits. We are using internal resources and Payroll Audit Inspectors to assist to clear this backlog by the end of June 2021. This process requires making contact with employers to obtain full required information to do the audit. Where required audit information is not submitted these will not be cleared and employer will be unable to obtain Letters of Good Standing.