On 4 April 2025, the Minister of Employment and Labour announced an increase in the Occupational Injury and Disease (OID) earnings threshold for 2024/2025 and 2025/2026. Due to communication delays from the Compensation Fund, the update was confirmed only after the OID filing period began on 1 April 2025. However, the change applies retroactively from 1 March 2025.

The OID earnings threshold determines the maximum earnings on which an employer’s assessment is calculated. The two new thresholds are:

• R597,328 for the actual period of 1 March 2024 to 28 February 2025; and
• R633,168 for the forecast period of 1 March 2025 to 28 February 2026.

ROE Submissions

Employers need to submit their Return of Earnings (ROE) to the Compensation Fund, confirming their employees’ actual earnings for the previous assessment year (1 March 2024 to 28 February 2025) and provisional earnings for the new assessment year (1 March 2025 to 28 February 2026).

As per our previous blog post, the ROE submission period is running from 1 April to 30 June 2025. However, the ROE submission portal was closed for maintenance until 10 April.

Effect of Late Notice

As this update was communicated only after the submission period began, any ROE submitted using a SimplePay file generated before 9 April will contain an outdated earnings threshold.

If you have already done your submission, please download a new file on SimplePay; it will now reflect the updated amounts. Simply go to Filing > OID (Workmen’s Comp) Return. More information can be found on our help page here.

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