Black Sash hits out at Sassa’s ‘ambitious, reckless’ plan on grants
The Social Security Agency of SA’s (Sassa’s) assumption that it will be able to contract with Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to pay social grants after March 31 depended on approval being obtained from CPS, the Constitutional Court and Treasury within the next 41 working days, the Black Sash said on Thursday. This plan was "not only ambitious but also reckless" the organisation’s spokesman Elroy Paulus said in a statement. Sassa officials informed Parliament’s social development committee on Wednesday that Sassa planned to approach the Constitutional Court shortly to seek an extension of the suspension of invalidity of the contract with CPS for a further year, to give it time to set up systems for insourcing the payments.
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