Professionals urge Sassa to sort out looming crisis in social grants payments
The lobby group Progressive Professionals Forum is offering to help SA Security Agency find a long-term way to pay 17-million beneficiaries of social grants
Cape Town — The Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF) lobby group is concerned about future payment of social grants and "believes that the matter could have been handled and communicated differently" to avert panic among 17-million beneficiaries. There has been uncertainty for months about payment of R11bn in grants after the expiry on March 31 of the unlawful contract with Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). There is outrage over the lack of plans for payments as the Department The Department of Social Development and the SA Security Agency (Sassa) had three years to prepare. At the eleventh hour agreement was reached for CPS to continue paying the grants for a further two years, but this has yet to be endorsed by Treasury. The PPF said on Monday that "it becomes a huge concern to the country as a whole when a situation arises where payment of such critical services is reported not to be guaranteed and or some kind of doubt, perceived or real, arises rightly or wrongly ...
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