NATIONAL NEWS - The social grants payment system could once again be at risk in the new year.
An independent panel that includes Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu and former Reserve Bank governor Gill Marcus has delivered a damning first progress report to the Constitutional Court slamming the Social Security Agency for lacking an implementation plan for the takeover of grant payments.
The panel, which has been tasked by the court with overseeing progress made by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) in transitioning to an in-house grant payment system, is now calling into question Sassa’s ability to phase out the current service provider, Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), by next year’s deadline.
Sassa unlikely to meet grant payments takeover deadline
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A Sassa card. Photo: Northglen News.
Posted on: 11:43 Wed, 18 October 2017
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