The following is news flash 2024/23 published by the PAGSA on May 11, 2024 regarding Notification UIF uFiling changes

UIF: CHANGES TO THE UFILING BULK SUBMISSION PROCESS

The purpose of this Newsflash is to inform you that changes have been made very recently to the uFiling system.

During 2023, the PAGSA and the UIF authorities engaged in meetings to discuss improvements to the eDec method of submitting monthly declarations to the Fund (the normal payroll method), as well as improvements to uFiling.

This was followed on 26 April 2024 by a meeting scheduled by the Fund, in which the Fund informed us of the changes that the Fund was able to make to uFiling as a result of our discussions.

These changes are in operation from 8 May 2024, and mainly affect the ‘bulk submission’ process that makes use of spreadsheet files.

Some aspects of the changes are not clear, and we have asked the Fund for a follow-up meeting to address our uncertainties.

With this in mind, it would be best to leave the detail of the changes until we have clarity.

Note that there are no changes to the normal method of declaration where payrolls create a file in terms of the UIF E03 specification that is emailed to the Fund every month.

Regards,
Rob Cooper