Deal between Sassa and Post Office for social grants expected next week
Minister Jeff Radebe says the Treasury has confirmed a ‘hybrid model for the payment of grants’, to be managed by the Social Security Agency and the Post Office
By next week Friday, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the South African Post Office (Sapo) will have an agreement drafted for co-operation in the distribution of social grants, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe says. Radebe was speaking to a joint sitting of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) and the portfolio committee on social development on Wednesday, signalling an end to the deadlock between Sassa and the post office. Radebe was briefing the MPs following a directive from the Treasury to facilitate and agreement between Sassa and Sapo on the provision of grants to more than 17-million South Africans from April. A deadlock developed despite a Constitutional Court ruling invalidating Cash Paymaster Services as a service provider in the provision of grants, and instructing Sassa to develop capacity to provide grants on its own. However, Sassa attempted to eliminate the Post Office from being considered by stating that the state-owne...
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