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South Africa: MPs Grill Social Development Over Grant Payments
GroundUp, 12 October 2023
"If the same findings are coming through, how effective are these enforcement powers of the Auditor-General?" Read more »
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South Africa: MPs Blast Post Office and Postbank Leadership
GroundUp, 11 October 2023
"I don't see a clear way forward. What I see is yet another failed entity" says MP Read more »
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South Africa: Postbank Insists Mthatha Social Grant Payments Went Smoothly, Despite Pensioners' Complaints of Delays
Daily Maverick, 4 October 2023
While Postbank denied any problems with pension payouts, some elderly people had to spend days queueing for their money as yet another payout point in Mthatha ran out of cash this… Read more »
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South Africa: Some Pensioners Are Still Queuing for Hours for Their Grants
GroundUp, 4 October 2023
But payments seem to be going more smoothly, at least in some places Read more »
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South Africa: No Glitches Expected With October Grant Payment Cycle, Says Mpumalanga Sassa
SAnews.gov.za, 3 October 2023
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in Mpumalanga has issued a statement assuring social grant beneficiaries of a smooth transaction during the October payment cycle. Read more »
Grant Payments - South African MPs Grill Social Security Agencies
The Department of Social Development (DSD) has told MPs that it does pay all grant beneficiaries on time. This is despite recent pay glitches, GroundUp reports.
On Wednesday October 11, 2023, the Auditor-General presented the 2022/23 annual reports for the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the department. The audit found that R39 million had been irregularly spent. The main contributing issue was with SASSA and the payment of social grants.
MPs on parliament's portfolio committee on social development criticised the department and SASSA for not taking full responsibility for payment delays.
Pensioners waited hours to collect their October social grants at some places in Cape Town, though on the whole the payments seemed to be going more smoothly, GroundUp reports. In Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, some elderly people spent days queueing for their money as a payout point ran out of cash this week, Daily Maverick reports.
In September 2023, thousands of social grant beneficiaries did not receive their money on time due to a technical glitch with PostBank. In response to reports of problems in October, Postbank denied any problems with pension payouts in the Eastern Cape.
The South African Post Office was offered the contract to pay social grants to over 17 million recipients after a court ruled that the contract for the previous service provider, NET1, ended in April 2018.
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A week after the old age grant was due to be to be paid out, thousands of recipients have still not been able to get their money, GroundUp reports. This follows a Read more »
A South African Social Security Agency van at Parliament (file photo).
