Social security: Disbursement dilemmas
Concern that consultants have too much influence over who should administer SA’s social grants system
With less than two months before the Net1 Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract to distribute social grants comes to an end and still no sign the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) is ready to take over, opposition parties and nongovernmental agencies remain convinced the plan is for CPS to continue distribution indefinitely. Sassa is continuing to notch up millions of rand of costs on consultants who have been employed to develop the strategy for a post-CPS distribution system. Some consultants were appointed as far back as 2014 to advise social development minister Bathabile Dlamini on the grant distribution system in the wake of the constitutional court’s decision to set aside the CPS contract. (That decision was subsequently suspended until a new contractor was appointed or until the contract expired.)
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