Post Office will throw its hat into the ring to take over social grants from CPS
CEO Mark Barnes: ‘First and foremost we are glad that it (the grant crisis) is solved that there is no longer a ransom (situation) out there’
The Post Office says it is disappointed that Cash Paymaster Systems (CPS) has been allowed to administer social grants for a further 12 months‚ but will be getting ready to throw its hat into the ring. Speaking after the Constitutional Court ruling this morning‚ Post Office CEO Mark Barnes said organisation had offered an alternative solution to the crisis. The Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) were taken to court after failing to find an alternative to a CPS contract that was declared invalid. In 2014 the court had nullified the contract but allowed it to continue with the understanding that Sassa would create an in-house grants distribution system. Sassa had not done this‚ leading to uncertainty about how grants would be paid from April 1. The court has now ruled that CPS should continue to administer social grant payments for 12 months. "Our primary purpose was to offer an alternative and we did that‚" Barnes said. "First and fo...
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