⚡ Quick answer If you never registered for UIF, the position is: you owe contributions back to when you should have registered, plus a 10% penalty and interest — and your employees currently cannot claim. The fix is a four-step routine: register with SARS and uFiling now, capture all employees, back-calculate and settle the arrears (or arrange payment), and file declarations monthly from now on. Thousands of businesses do this every year — it is uncomfortable, finite, and always cheaper than waiting for a claim or inspection to force it. If you have never registered for UIF — or registered years ago and never declared — you are in the…