Finance Minister announces 9% boost in social grant spending

Old age grant to rise R90 to R1,600 a month

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Brief | 22 February 2017

SASSA prepares for “tough negotiations” over grant payments

Contract will stay within budget, MPs told

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News | 22 February 2017

US analyst urges clients to sell Net1 shares as concerns mount over social grant payments

CEO hits back at “unbridled slander” from critics

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News | 13 February 2017

Cape Town mother’s long wait for social grants

SASSA pays out six-year backlog

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News | 8 February 2017

The long queue for social grants

“With the scorching sun or rain, we always wait”

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Feature | 2 February 2017

“We have failed” admits SASSA

CPS to run grant payment system for another year

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News | 1 February 2017

Don’t panic says SASSA as payout takeover deadline looms

Plan to pay 17 million beneficiaries to be revealed in Parliament next week

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Brief | 27 January 2017

SASSA contractor may have to pay back millions of rands

Cash Paymaster Services told to repay profits

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Analysis | 27 January 2017

SASSA meeting postponed again

ANC MPs to attend lekgotla instead

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Brief | 24 January 2017

Weeks from grant payment deadline, SASSA still has no plan

Call for tenders suddenly goes out

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News | 18 January 2017

Old age pensioners should get funeral insurance, says Black Sash

Amendments to Social Assistance Act proposed

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News | 6 December 2016

Social grants: Minister to make announcement on switchover

Black Sash warns of looming national crisis

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News | 28 November 2016

Social grant recipients want answers from SASSA

Pietermaritzburg beneficiaries still waiting for their money

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Brief | 16 November 2016

Social grants: victims of deductions protest in Durban

Pensioners complain of unauthorised airtime deductions

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News | 18 October 2016

Black Sash gathers support for social grants campaign

“Hands off our Grants” event in St George’s Cathedral

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News | 12 October 2016

Leticha and the debt trap

A case study of how vulnerable people are preyed upon

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Feature | 15 September 2016