RESOURCES
View our available resources at the links below…
1. Basic information
- Retirement fund dictionary
- Monitoring your employer and tracking your retirement fund contributions.
2. Legislation
- Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956
- Conditions for Administration of Pension Funds, 2002
- Minimum Skills and Training Requirements for Board Members of Pension Funds, 2020
3. Cases
- Amicus further submission – Mutsila v Municipal Gratuity Fund
- Constitutional court hearing: Mutsila v Municipal Gratuity Fund & Pension Justice (amicus curiae) (CCT228/24)
- Amicus Submissions – Mutsila v Municipal Gratuity Fund
- Mudau v Municipal Employees Pension Fund 2023 (Constitutional Court)
- Municipal Workers Pension Fund v South African Local Government Bargaining Council 2023 (Gauteng Provincial Division)
4. News and developments
- Pension Justice submissions on Draft Pension Laws Amendment Bill
- Treasury media statement
- Draft Pension Laws Amendment Bill
- Mudau v MEPF – Constitutional Court Judgment
- SAPO medical aid subsidies
- Understanding the two-pot system
- Unpaid Benefits Campaign holds its AGM for 2023
- FSCA’s long list of employers who have not paid over workers’ pension fund contributions by 30 April 2023
5. Training material
- Pension Justice guest lecture at Wits University by Hannine Drake on rules for transferring between retirement funds
- Pension Justice presentation on causes, consequences and corrections to the issue of unpaid pension benefits
6. Public Interest Law Gathering 2024
- The need for more pension lawyers
- Litigation – The approach of pension funds and the scope for litigation
- Litigation – The role of trade unions
- Employer contributions to pension funds and non-payment
- The role of employers and administrators
- The effect of the two-pot system
- Claiming unpaid benefits and the challenge of the Prescription Act
- Time limits on raising complaints with the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator
- Open Secrets on the money still owing to beneficiaries
- Open Secrets on its litigation for the payment of unpaid benefits
- Class actions and the right to social security
- The relationship between pension law and labour law
- The difference between private pensions and occupational funds
- The difficulties faced by former TBVC employees and their dependants