Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini says revised regulations to the Social Assistance Act published on Friday aim to close loopholes which allow illegal, immoral and unauthorised deductions on social grants. Dlamini, briefed the media on progress made by the Ministerial Task Team on Deductions, set up to investigate these issues. She[…]
As most Capetonians recover from excessive spending these Easter holidays, the NGO Black Sash says the accounts of hundreds of social grant beneficiaries are still being debited illegally by outsourced payment contractors. It says the South African Social Security Agency’s (SASSA) campaign to address the issue has failed. Government is currently reviewing[…]
Social rights group Black Sash believes the increase in the budget for social grants is meagre and will not cover the rise in the cost of living. In Wednesday’s Budget speech, finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that 11-and-a-half-billion-Rands would be added to social grant allocations. But Black Sash national advocacy[…]
Through a citizen monitoring initiative, Black Sash has found that many SASSA beneficiaries have experienced unauthorised deductions. Individuals have reported deductions that have left them with only R 60 instead of their entitled amount of R 1,040. Many of the cases were reported at the Black Sash monitoring station at[…]
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) beneficiaries have expressed frustration over unauthorised deductions from their accounts. Many individuals that have contacted VOC complained that they did not know that this money would be deducted from their accounts, furthermore, stating that no indication was given regarding the reason for the deductions.[…]
Social grant recipients are set to receive a welcome boost after the South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) announced that grants for December will be distributed earlier than expected. With the festive season fast approaching, recipients will be able to access their funding from the 26th November onwards. Pay-outs usually[…]
Five South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials have been convicted on charges of corruption in relation to the distribution of fraudulent grants. The verdict comes after a broader investigation by the agency and the Provincial Department of Social Development into a spate of illegal cash deductions from the accounts[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has yet to appoint a new social grant service provider to manage its grant distributions, despite a March ruling by the Constitutional Court that a new tender be awarded by October 15th. The deadline was imposed after the court ruled that Sassa’s contract[…]
Corruption Watch (CW) have again taken the legal route in a bid to force the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to shed light on an alleged ‘irregular payment’ made to affiliate company, Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). The organisation filed a second affidavit in September on the matter, off the[…]
The inability of the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) to recover money owed to it by fraudsters is concerning, Parliament’s portfolio committee on social development said on Tuesday. “This is an area that Sassa and the national department need to improve on. It is an intolerable situation that money that[…]
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