Road Accident Fund payouts – how much can you claim?

[BusinessTech]

Road Accident Fund payouts – how much can you claim?

With the festive season fast approaching and car accident rates rising in numbers over this period, it’s worthwhile knowing where you stand with claiming from the Road Accident Fund (RAF) should you be in an accident.

 

[thehuman]

Remember if you die after accident your estate get nothing

 

[Gordon_R]

Remember if you die after accident your estate get nothing

Ummm, then why does the article state the opposite:

Compensation for loss of support and funeral costs may be paid in cases where the breadwinner in a family has died in a road accident.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

Road Accident Fund payouts – how much can you claim?
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The RAF is bankrupt due to corruption and theft. You'll get fukall......

 

[RedViking]

You can claim an arm and a leg, doesn't mean you gonna get it though.....

 

[thehuman]

Ummm, then why does the article state the opposite:

You survive accident, but die before paid out a while later.

 

[Slootvreter]

The RAF is bankrupt due to corruption and theft. You'll get fukall......

Strangely enough, that's not true. I know of two people who got in excess of R750k.

I'm not sure what the criteria for payout are, and how they decide who gets paid or not, but people are still getting paid.

Personally, I see it as a pot of gold exploited by 'victims' and their 'lawyers'

 

[The Voice]

The RAF is bankrupt due to corruption and theft. You'll get fukall......

Also due to unnecessarily large payouts - recall a story years ago where an EU national was paid something like R140mil.

 

[Slootvreter]

Likely the lawyers milking this thing.

 

[Gordon_R]

Also due to unnecessarily large payouts - recall a story years ago where an EU national was paid something like R140mil.

And this recent claim for R40m (unlikely to be paid). See: https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...ovie-set-resident-evil-6.789331/post-22606946

Stuntwoman sues RAF, stakeholders for R40m in damages

 

[Slootvreter]

Also due to unnecessarily large payouts - recall a story years ago where an EU national was paid something like R140mil.

There are actually loads of videos on YouTube of people deliberately walking into or in front of slow moving vehicles and then acting like Neymar.

 

[R13...]

Also due to unnecessarily large payouts - recall a story years ago where an EU national was paid something like R140mil.

That's not even the worst, this was (and paid apparently)

A foreign businessman has landed a R500-million settlement from the country's Road Accident Fund (RAF) after losing an arm and a leg in a motorcycle accident, the Sunday Times reported.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/accident-funds-largest-payout-in-history-408114

 

[The Voice]

That's not even the worst, this was (and paid apparently)

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/accident-funds-largest-payout-in-history-408114

Well there you go. Jeez, no wonder it's tanked.