Roughly 2.8-million beneficiaries will not get their grant payments if the contract with CPS is not extended, the agency argued in court papers.
The agency has 31 days to migrate core components of the grants scheme from CPS to the South African Post Office, as agreed in December last year.
A panel wants the treasury to take over paying social grants as the agency can’t get its act together
The social development minister’s bodyguards intervened to protect her from questions, former Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza testified.
The ConCourt appointed Ngoepe to head the inquiry into whether Dlamini should be held personally liable for the costs incurred during Sassa crisis.
Dlamini maintains that there was nothing ”sinister or inappropriate” about her decision to make the ”workstream” leaders report directly to her.
Sassa will for the first time make electronic payments to social grant beneficiaries through its new corporate Postbank account on February 1
This revelation is contained in documents and correspondence between the embattled SA Social Security Agency and the Net1 subsidiary.
It signed a deal with the Post Office yet at the same time asked that the invalid CPS contract be extended
The Post Office will score just over R2.2-billion a year, according to the agreement.