Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

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Constitutional Court cuts CPS down to size

Company told to charge R16.44 to pay cash grants, not R45

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Brief | 31 May 2018

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CPS drops its rate for social grant payments

Company prepared to accept R45 per cash beneficiary - for now

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News | 28 May 2018

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Treasury shoots down CPS social grant payment fee

R51 recommended to Constitutional Court instead of R67 per cash beneficiary

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News | 3 May 2018

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SASSA tells NET1 to retract “misleading” pamphlet

Company told to apologise to social grant beneficiaries

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News | 25 April 2018

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Durban woman’s pension vanishes in unexplained loans

CPS promises to refund beneficiary while it investigates

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Brief | 23 April 2018

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Correcting social grant deductions is “expensive” and “inefficient”

Beneficiaries struggle to get back money taken in fraudulent debits to their accounts

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News | 23 April 2018

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New SASSA cards to be launched countrywide in May

Worcester beneficiaries among first group to get new cards

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Brief | 19 April 2018

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Social grant payouts go smoothly in Western Cape

SASSA says over 900,000 people have been successfully paid so far in the province

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News | 9 April 2018

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SASSA says Grindrod bank charge is “disingenuous”

SASSA card users will be charged R10 a month plus ATM withdrawal charges

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Brief | 29 March 2018

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Over 5 million social grant beneficiaries to pay R10 “bank charge”

SASSA assures MPs that all grants will be paid from 1 April

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News | 28 March 2018

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Constitutional Court gives social grant payment company six-month extension

High Court rules that CPS must pay back its profits

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Law | 23 March 2018

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Advocate accuses Dlamini of lying

Former minister is trying to avoid being held personally liable for court costs

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News | 20 March 2018

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2.5 million people at risk of not receiving social grants on time

Provincial heads at the South African Social Security Agency briefed Parliament on contingency plans

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Parliament | 16 March 2018

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SASSA is trying to blackmail Constitutional Court, says judge

Social Security Agency argues for extension of CPS contract

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News | 7 March 2018

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Black Sash back to Constitutional Court over social grants

Organisation wants data protection for grant beneficiaries and a moratorium on issuing Easy Pay Everywhere cards

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Brief | 5 March 2018

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Corruption Watch says CPS must pay back R317 million

Social grant payment company claims it offered “the best deal SASSA could get”

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News | 23 February 2018