SCOPA summons SASSA to account for social grants crisis
27 February 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) has summoned the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to appear before the committee tomorrow, 28 February 2017, to account for the self-inflicted social grants crisis.
The hearing will present yet another attempt to extract the truth over the bungled CPS contract that has placed payments to 17 million poor and vulnerable beneficiaries at risk.
The CPS contract was previously declared irregular by the Constitutional Court and SASSA has since failed in their attempt to find a solution.
First, SASSA proposed that they would take over the function themselves and wasted millions on consultants only to arrive at the conclusion that they lack the capacity to distribute social grants.