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South Africa: New Social Grants Contract Nears Finalisation
GroundUp, 7 March 2017
Dlamini says SASSA underestimated the task of taking over grant payments Read more »
The five-year contract with Cash Payment Services, which began in February 2012, was declared invalid by the Constitutional Court in 2014. The court however suspended its ruling, to ensure that recipients would continue receiving payments until the social security agency was due to take over this year.
Sassa offices.
The government wants to move the social grant payment system away from a private firm whose contract was declared invalid and that expires in March, back to the South African ... Read more »
The SA Social Security Agency has denied that it will approach the Constitutional Court to request an extension of an illegal contract with Cash Paymaster Services - which ... Read more »
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