Last Updated on July 26, 2023
Do you want to apply for the Government Employees Housing Scheme (GEHS) 2023? Here’s a detailed guide on the GEHS online registration process.
The Government Employees Housing Scheme (GEHS) has been developed with the objective of assisting public service employees to improve their housing circumstances and access sustainable housing solutions.
The purpose of the GEHS is to counsel, advise and educate public service employees on housing options and home ownership, as well as support the financial rehabilitation of affected employees. The GEHS will also administer the application of the housing allowance and support access to housing finances, including housing subsidies and other housing programmes.
Who should enrol? All employees must enrol. Employees who are on total–cost–to–employer packages shall not be eligible to receive the housing allowance, save for all other provisions and services of GEHS.
Is my information safe? All data provided by the employee is confidential for purposes of the scheme.
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GEHS Online Registration Eligibility
To be eligible for the GEHS Enrolment, you must fall into the following categories:
- All persons employed in the public service in National and Provincial Departments.
- Employees residing on communal land with valid permission to occupy, enrol with the GEHS like all other employees.
GEHS Online Registration Process
- Kindly visit the GEHS Enrolment Portal at: https://www.gehsenrolment.org
- Click on ‘Sign Up’ if you are a new user and the ‘Login’ if you are an old user.
- To proceed with your registration, kindly fill in the required information to verify that you are an employee of the South African Government.
- Log in with your newly created account and submit your application
All employees who wish to use GEHS services are required to enrol, providing information about their housing circumstances. This information will assist the GEHS to improve housing provision for all public service employees.
All employees are required to first enrol with GEHS to access any and all services offered by the scheme.
All data provided by the employee is confidential for purposes of the scheme.
Enrolment with the scheme enables:
- The profiling of employees to inform housing choices and/or solutions.
- Maintenance of a comprehensive database of demand for and supply of housing.
- Aggregation of employees housing demands to inform and match the supply of housing stock to employee housing needs.
I am struggling to get / fill in the GEHS certificate.
Please be more user friendly. To get a certifcate is so difficult and we have no knowledge to get acces to the certificate. Why cant the HR personnel request it and submit it to the member.
signing up for enrolment is problematic in its first step. kindly make it user friendly and to be progressive