The Cabinet is satisfied that the 17-million beneficiaries of social grants will be paid on April 1 after the expiry of the current contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). The Cabinet was briefed on Wednesday on the state of readiness of the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to distribute social grants to beneficiaries as from April, on the basis of a hybrid model. Communications Minister Nomvula Mokonyane said at a post-Cabinet media briefing on Thursday that the interministerial committee tasked to ensure that social grants continued to be paid from April onwards was addressing the problem of cash payments to 2.8-million beneficiaries.
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