Sassa expected to ask ConCourt to extend invalid grant payment contract
8 February 2017
Johannesburg - The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) is expected to ask the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to extend the grant payments contract of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for another year.
In 2014, the court declared Sassa’s current contract with CPS invalid. Sassa would effectively be asking the court to overturn its own ruling.
Instead of appointing a new contractor, Sassa submitted a plan to the court to take over the payments to 17 million beneficiaries on April 1, 2017.
“After carefully considering our options, we felt it may cause panic if we try and implement a new system. We acknowledge we have failed,” Sassa official Raphaahle Ramokgopa told Parliament’s social development committee on February 1, Fin24 reported.