How to claim the 20% mandatory grant, and the five conditions that decide whether you get it
The easiest money in skills development, forfeited every year by employers who submitted on time.
Read itThe rules, in plain language.
Skills development in South Africa is not complicated so much as badly explained. These are the answers we end up giving on the phone, written down.
How to check a training provider is actually accredited, and why the logo proves nothing
Accreditation attaches to one programme, at one site, for a set period.
Read itWe missed the WSP deadline. What can still be recovered, and what is genuinely gone?
Four things are curable after 30 April. Everything else is not.
Read itYour SETA is asking for a WSP and ATR. Here is what that means and what to send
A number arrived and now somebody wants two documents you have never heard of.
Read itCan you claim the levy back for training you did in-house? Yes, and the evidence is different
Invoices prove external training. Attendance registers prove yours.
Read itRecognition of prior learning, for the employer with staff who hold no certificate
Twenty years of competence that no system currently counts.
Read itHow to run a skills audit that actually feeds your Workplace Skills Plan
The fields most audit guides skip are the ones your submission needs.
Read itWhat is PIVOTAL training, and why does the WSP form keep asking about it?
Four letters that decide which side of a funding split your training lands on.
Read itCETA for construction employers: what to submit, and where construction claims come apart
Site-based workforces and statutory tickets complicate everything.
Read itmerSETA WSP and ATR submission: the window, the sign-off, and the two sets of minutes
The window opens on 1 February, which changes how you plan for it.
Read itCHIETA and AgriSETA: where chemicals and agriculture employers differ from everyone else
Same legislation, advertised funding windows, different administration.
Read itWhat NQF level actually means for the training you are paying for
The rung decides what the spend is worth, not the invoice.
Read itWhat the Skills Development Act actually requires of an employer
Most of the duties people attribute to it are somewhere else.
Read itThe 6% leviable amount: how to work out what your skills spend target actually is
Not 6% of payroll, and possibly not 6% at all.
Read itWhy WSP and ATR submissions get rejected, and what a compliant one looks like
Most of what goes wrong happens in the data long before April.
Read itHow to apply for a SETA discretionary grant, and why most employers never do
The larger pot of skills funding is competed for, in windows most employers never hear about.
Read itWhich SETA is your company registered with, and what to do if it is the wrong one
It was decided by a code on your SARS registration, not by what your business feels like it does.
Read itLearnerships pay back three separate ways, and most employers claim one
Grant funding, a tax allowance and scorecard points, claimed in three different places.
Read itWho is exempt from the skills development levy, and why most non-profits are not
The exemption list is shorter and stricter than employers assume.
Read itWhat a Skills Development Facilitator does, and whether your company needs one
The duties, who can hold the role, and the paperwork slip that quietly voids a claim.
Read itWho has to submit a Workplace Skills Plan, and what it costs to skip it
The threshold, the deadline, the documents, and the money that quietly disappears on 1 May.
Read itThe skills development levy, explained: what you pay and what comes back
Where your 1% goes once SARS collects it, and the two very different routes it can take back to you.
Read itWhere the 20 B-BBEE skills development points actually come from
Why two companies can spend the same amount on training and score fifteen points apart.
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