Employees can claim illness benefits if they are off work because of illness for more than two weeks. Benefits are paid from the date on which the employee stopped working because of illness.

To get illness benefits the employee must satisfy the following conditions:

• The employee has been contributing to the fund and money has been deducted from his or her salary for uif every month
• The employee must have been sick for more than 14 days
• The claim must be made within 6 months of the illness
• The claim must be made on the proper form which includes completing a medical certificate, by the doctor or recognised homeopath. A medical certificate must

If the employee has been paid by the employer during the period of illness, then the benefits paid by the Fund will be the difference between what the employer paid and the benefit that the employee would have been entitled to.

Benefits can be paid up to maximum of 238 days in any period of 4 years, depending on the number of credits an employee has earned.