I have been delaying responding to this post in the hope that someone would have a
definitive insight. But no such luck.
So let me share my thought, which unfortunately relies on a bit of anecdotal evidence...
First, you can claim the COVID-19 TERS benefit and make a partial payment too. You just have to declare how much you have paid the employee within the TERS claim.
The heart of the issue though is how does this partial payment by the employer affect what the UIF pays out. The only real clue I have got is a TERS Benefit Calculator I managed to download from SAIT. Testing the idea of part payments on this calculator - the result shows that 100% of any payment by the employer is deducted from the benefit that will be paid by UIF.
Without contribution by employer:
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And then with a R1000 contribution from the employer.
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Based on this, the only beneficiary of your partial payment for any payment amount less than what they would have paid without the employer's contribution is the UIF. If you pay more than the amount UIF would have paid, there will be zero from the UIF.
Unfortunately I have found no corroborating evidence to confirm that the calculator is correct in applying the employer's contribution this way.
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