AN undisclosed number of workers at the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) were terminated with immediate effect on September 10 and given one month's salary (in lieu of notice.)

Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Khadijah Ameen said the government was restructuring the programme after massive corruption was unearthed.

Termination letters were sent to individual workers, drafted on the letterhead of the Ministry of Rural Development and Local Government and signed by acting permanent secretary Peter Mitchell.