Browsing: Pension Funds Act

The Mineworkers Provident Fund has been ordered to pay 15.5 percent interest on a delayed death benefit of R458 358.59 after the Pension Funds Adjudicator found that years of inaction prejudiced dependants waiting for payment.

Widow Tshifhiwa Mutsila’s decade-long fight led the Constitutional Court to rule that pension fund dependency must be determined at the member’s date of death, protecting vulnerable families.