MOM ‘strengthens’ system to better detect underpayment of CPF contributions by employers: Tan Chuan-Jin

By Nurul Azliah Aripin | Yahoo Newsroom – 

Manpower minister Tan Chuan-Jin announced in parliament on Tuesday that the Central Provident Fund Board (CPFB) has "strengthened" its system and now requires employers to declare which of its employees have gone for National Service. CPFB will also remind employers to make CPF contributions.
 
Tan announced this in response to Dr Chia Shi-Lu's query on whether the system can be improved. The Auditor-General's (AGO) report for financial 2013 to 2014 had highlighted the Ministry of Manpower's (MOM) failure to detect underpayment of CPF contributions.
 
According to the report, which was released on 17 July, the AGO discovered MOM's "inadequate" system of checks to detect wrong payment of CPF contributions by employers for employees performing NS.
 
The AGO found no evidence of "independent verification" to ensure completeness and accuracy of employee wage records.
 
The report also said that MOM has "completed" investigations into the wrong payments and found 24 instances of underpayment and four instances of non-payments.
 
The ministry has also "fully recovered" the wrong payments from employers.

System migration 'errors' at MOH
 
Separately, "errors" stemmed from administration migration of IT system were to blame for the Health Ministry's (MOH) lapse in continuing to pay $64,000 in financial assistance to 99 people after their deaths, said health minister Gan Kim Yong in parliament on Tuesday.
 
The IT system migration conducted by an external vendor had resulted in the demise list not being updated, which led to the continued payment under the Interim Disability Assistance Programme for the Elderly (IDAPE).
 
The minister assured that the issue has been "rectified" and that the administration has been required to "make improvements" to the system, which now "triggers alerts for errors".
 
The ministry has also "sought full reimbursements" of the amounts that have been wrongly paid.

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