Black Sash says Sassa should create a special and protected bank account
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) can fulfil its constitutional mandate to make grant payments nationally‚ without third parties with profit motives‚ the Black Sash said on Friday. The organisation made this comment following the Constitutional Court judgment which ensures that there will be no disruption to grant payments on April 1. The court ordered that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS)‚ performing as an organ of the state‚ continue to pay social grants for the next 12 months. The court had‚ in 2014‚ declared th the 2012 contract between Sassa and CPS invalid; however‚ the court extended the invalid contract to give Sassa time to open a new tender process for social grant payments. The court discharged its supervisory role in November 2015 after Sassa informed the court it would not open a new tender and would undertake the payments of grants in house, but the Department of Social Development and Sassa only informed the court this month that it would be unable to pay ...
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