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Post office deal to pay grants may put Sassa finances under strain - panel
The panel headed by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says enlisting the Post Office to pay grants in cash might not be the most cost efficient for Sassa.
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Black Sash in court to protect grant beneficiaries from exploitation
In 2017, the Gauteng High Court found in favour of Net1 after it challenged regulations by former Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini, aimed at limiting deductions from social grants.
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Minister Shabangu committed to cleaning up social grants debacle
The minister says she won’t be drawn into a blame game over the grants debacle that started under Bathabile Dlamini's leadership.
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Minister Shabangu berates Sassa officials
Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu has gone as far as to say they are colluding with CPS to coax beneficiaries into signing up for new bank accounts.
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Grant beneficiaries urged to make use of Sassa, Sapo agents
On Wednesday, the South African Post Office (Sapo) started making the first grant payments since its partnership with Sassa.
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Robberies mar Sapo payment of social grants
Thousands of people were turned away from distribution centres after Sassa and the Post Office experienced problems with its payment systems.
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Shabangu confident Sassa can eliminate cash payments by September
This is despite a panel of experts telling the Constitutional Court in July, that it expects Sassa to require another extension of its contract with Cash Paymaster Services.
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WC Sassa identifies problems with grant payments system
The agency is confident that August’s payments will be smoother than July when over 700,000 grant recipients had to wait for more than a week due to a system overload.
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Sassa promises smooth grant payment after IT system improvement
Earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries had to make multiple visits to pay points to get their money, as an overloaded system struggled to cope with the volume of payments.
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Sassa, CPS at loggerheads once again
Cash Paymaster Services says it's running at losses of over R114 million a month and has not been paid for the last three months.
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Sassa: Grant payments to be made without hitches from Wednesday
For over 700,000 grant recipients, July payments were delayed for more than a week due to a system overload.
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Hawks to probe mismanagement of Sassa funds at Soshanguve centre
Allegations of child neglect, mismanagement of Sassa funds, state of disrepair and substance abuse have been levelled against the Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Youth Care Centre.
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State capture far from over, study warns
Stellenbosch University researchers say state capture goes beyond state-owned enterprises and is not only a form of grand corruption to loot the state.
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PSA to proceed with urgent court application against Susan Shabangu
The PSA says Sassa has failed to table any counteroffer to its demand of a wage hike of between 13 and 15%.
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Panel concerned CPS unduly profiting from paying social grants
The expert panel says that unless sassa and Sapo come up with better contingency plans to mitigate the problems it's been having with paying beneficiaries, it may have to continue to rely on CPS.
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Sassa & CPS grants contract may be extended beyond September
A panel overseeing the institutionalisation of social grant payments says it's particularly concerned over cash payments as Sassa is closing thousands of pay points.
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PSA seeks to avoid strike as Sassa wage talks collapse
Workers affiliated to the PSA protested over the past few weeks, demanding higher salaries.
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Sassa: 83% of social grants paid following technical problems
The agency says the balance of beneficiaries who have not yet been paid, are those who choose to collect their grants later in the month, or who have not yet attempted to withdraw their money.
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Shabangu: Dept pushing for complete Post Office control of grant payments
CPS will no longer be able to distribute social grants beyond the end of September following a deadline imposed by the Constitutional Court.
