Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Minister says social grant flaws found by students will be investigated within 30 days
Stellenbosch teenaged students present their findings to Parliament
Parliament | 23 October 2024
People wait months to be verified for R370 SRD grant
SASSA blames the Home Affairs online system
News | 22 October 2024
Social grant fraud: SASSA needs to act, not deny
Instead of wrongly accusing us of illegal hacking, SASSA should take urgent action to fix the extremely serious problems we described
By Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai
Analysis | 18 October 2024
MPs demand Postbank explain “persistent” problems with social grants
Beneficiaries with gold cards have been struggling to access their grants
News | 15 October 2024
We discovered massive fraud in SASSA’s grant system
SASSA needs to disclose how this happened and the scale of the problem
By Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai
Analysis | 14 October 2024
SASSA recovers R150-million in ineligible grants payments
But the agency is bleeding funds due to fraudulent payments still being made
News | 11 October 2024
More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September
Most applicants have never had a job
Brief | 2 October 2024
R2,000 unconditional grant improves lives, KZN study finds
The Unconditional Cash Transfer Project gives monthly cash transfers to 100 unemployed graduates
News | 30 September 2024
Pensioners allowed back on Community Works Programme
Department of Co-operative Governance reverses decision to end contracts of about 35,000 employees who also get old age grants
Brief | 17 September 2024