Cape Town - Sassa withdrew its application to the Constitutional Court for advice on how to pay millions of social grants recipients from April 1 because it made a mistake in its papers.
"There is a certain section which they erroneously left out. It was an administrative error," SA Social Security Agency spokesperson Paseka Letsatsi said on Wednesday.
They would have to get their papers in order and resubmit them. He could not immediately say what was left out of the application.
On April 1 there may be no agency to pay the pensions, disability, child care, and foster grants on which the poor desperately rely. This is when Sassa’s illegal contract with Cash Paymaster Services ends. The agency had thus far failed to set up an alternative payment system.
In April 2014, the Constitutional Court declared Sassa’s contract with CPS invalid. It suspended the order of invalidity until March 31 this year, and instructed Sassa to reissue the tender. The case was brought by rival bidder for the payments, AllPay.
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