Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will
The social security agency says it will not extend the December deadline to switch to the new Sassa cards
‘We should fully expect that the IMF’s main focus would be our costly civil service and bloated, indebted and dysfunctional state-owned enterprises’
The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance
Fix it, Cyril: The optimism that greeted President Ramaphosa’s ‘thuma mina’ call has faded as the economy has shrunk
‘How far can you fall in the three days that you stood in line, having been forced to borrow money to pay taxi fares to get to a collection point?’
Social grant beneficiaries who draw their money at ATMs might have to wait a little longer to access it
For now, Cash Paymaster Services is prepared to charge Sassa R45 to pay social grants in cash, rather than its initial pitch of R66.70 per beneficiary
Sassa’s invalid contract with Cash Paymaster Services was extended for six months by the ConCourt in March
The agency admitted in court papers there was no feasible solution to assist around 2.8-million beneficiaries before the April 1 deadline
With less than a month to transfer core components of the scheme to CPS, Sassa has to answer how it will deliver cash-based social grants
Sassa will for the first time make electronic payments to social grant beneficiaries through its new corporate Postbank account on February 1
What Sassa is now proposing is that the bidding process be reopened on November 3 2017.
Parliament’s social development portfolio committee will seek legal advice on whether to summon Dlamini.
Readers write in about health equity, the Post Office, and Krotoa
Here are the stories of the many who have to survive on very little.
The company gets the go-ahead to debit the accounts of social grant beneficiaries.
Magda Wierzycka might be the richest woman in SA but she hasn’t lost sight of those with very little
The two biggest Net1 investors admit to CPS worries, but disagree on scale and severity.
The Concourt repeatedly steps in to protect vulnerable people and perform what former deputy chief Justice Moseneke calls its "transformative role"
The judiciary stands to gain more legitimacy if it manages to confront the impunity of Sassa and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini.
Constitutional delinquent: Bathabile Dlamini is part of a political culture in an unresponsive government. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp)
Grant recipients are often at a loss about who they are dealing with, which makes them vulnerable
The social development minister appeared before Scopa on Tuesday and said that feedback on the Sassa agreement with CPS will be ready by Friday.
Read the directions from the Constitutional Court in the Sassa/Black Sash matter.
In terms of its original ruling, CPS, once contracted, acts as an organ of the state and has to provide a service.
Absa fought tooth and nail on a previous tender, but now it is conspiciously absent.
Opposition parties criticised Dlamini for being negligent and unprepared, during a meeting to detail the department’s plans regarding grant payments.
Correspondence suggests that Bathabile Dlamini’s approach was to make Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan jointly responsible for Sassa’s plan of action.
"Most child support grant beneficiaries say it’s impossible to get by on R350 a month."
No one’s sure whether, come April 1, social grants will be paid out as the agency bungles the process of bringing the system in-house
Bidders hoping to be part of Sassa’s grant payment system from April 1 have only a few details to get grants to 17-million people.