ConCourt orders CPS to pay back R318m to Sassa
14 February 2020
The Constitutional Court has refused Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) leave to appeal a judgment ordering the company to pay back R316m to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa).
The court ruled that CPS' appeal had no reasonable prospects of success and "did not qualify as a constitutional matter for consideration", according to anti-corruption organisation Corruption Watch.
The matter spans back to 2014, when Sassa paid CPS the money after the company claimed it had enrolled more grant recipients and beneficiaries than it had been contracted to do, News24 previously reported.
Corruption Watch brought the matter to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria in 2015 to review and set aside the exorbitant payment.