Treasury steps in to break social grants deadlock

SASSA and Post Office fail to reach agreement

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Parliament | 2 November 2017

SASSA, post office in desperate bid to solve grants crisis

MPs grill SASSA and Minister over failure to sign contract

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News | 31 October 2017

SASSA will have one month to test new grants payment system

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini acknowledges that “time is an issue”

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Brief | 30 October 2017

SASSA offers Post Office payment of social grants

A deal could help revive South Africa’s postal service

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Brief | 19 October 2017

SASSA heading for another crisis, say MPs

Panel of experts slams SASSA for failing to provide information

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News | 18 October 2017

Black Sash raises red flag over future of SASSA accounts

Social grant cards will not expire on 31 December

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News | 17 October 2017

Foster grants – Bathabile Dlamini’s next national embarrassment?

Six years after ruling, huge backlogs persist as December court deadline looms

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Parliament | 12 October 2017

Only one third of SASSA disputed deductions resolved

MPs grill agency on damning annual report

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Parliament | 6 October 2017

We’re unfairly treated, says Bathabile Dlamini

Minister tells MPs to stop criticising SASSA officials

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News | 6 September 2017

1Life to refund pensioner after unexplained policy deductions

“They said one of my children signed me up, but I have never heard of the person with that name”

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News | 28 August 2017

City boots SASSA out of Witsand

Social grant beneficiaries now have to walk 10km

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Brief | 23 August 2017

How Net1 will make money after social grant contract ends

Card linking grant recipients to company’s services will remain active

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News | 18 August 2017

Social grants: MPs accuse SASSA of deliberate delays

Post Office’s role in grant payments unclear

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Parliament | 15 August 2017

Black Sash appeals social grants deduction case

Organisation argues that High Court failed to recognise history of predatory practices

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Law | 4 August 2017

Social grant beneficiaries happy after cancelling “green” cards

People who closed EasyPay Everywhere accounts received their full grant amount on SASSA cards

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News | 7 July 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017