Sassa reports payment service to the courts for interfering in migration to the SA Post Office
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has reported controversial grants distributor Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to the police and the Constitutional Court for allegedly interfering in their migration to a new grants payment system.This was revealed by Minister of Social Development Susan Shabangu at a press briefing on Thursday.The briefing had been convened to provide an update on the migration from the old payment system administered by CPS to the new one‚ to be operated by the South Africa Post Office (Sapo).The migration is part of a Constitutional Court judgment issued last year, which found the contract between Sassa and CPS to be unlawful and invalid‚ and ordered that grants be distributed by the state-owned Sapo. The Court also ordered that it be provided with regular updates on the progress made by an inter-ministerial committee set up to oversee the migration process.Shabangu’s announcement comes after there was chaos earlier this month when some grant benefic...
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