Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Durban woman’s pension vanishes in unexplained loans
CPS promises to refund beneficiary while it investigates
Brief | 23 April 2018
Correcting social grant deductions is “expensive” and “inefficient”
Beneficiaries struggle to get back money taken in fraudulent debits to their accounts
News | 23 April 2018
New SASSA cards to be launched countrywide in May
Worcester beneficiaries among first group to get new cards
Brief | 19 April 2018
Social grant payouts go smoothly in Western Cape
SASSA says over 900,000 people have been successfully paid so far in the province
News | 9 April 2018
SASSA says Grindrod bank charge is “disingenuous”
SASSA card users will be charged R10 a month plus ATM withdrawal charges
By Aidan Jones
Brief | 29 March 2018
Over 5 million social grant beneficiaries to pay R10 “bank charge”
SASSA assures MPs that all grants will be paid from 1 April
News | 28 March 2018
Constitutional Court gives social grant payment company six-month extension
High Court rules that CPS must pay back its profits
By Zoë Postman
Law | 23 March 2018
Advocate accuses Dlamini of lying
Former minister is trying to avoid being held personally liable for court costs
By Zoë Postman
News | 20 March 2018
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
Parliament | 16 March 2018