ConCourt wants SASSA to explain alternative grants payment scheme
29 November 2017
Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court has asked the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to provide reasons why an alternative payment scheme, recently suggested by its expert panel, is feasible.
The alternative payments scheme was suggested two weeks ago by the expert panel set up by SASSA and Black Sash under the supervision of the court.
In its second feedback report, the panel suggested a seemingly simpler way to deal with the short-term problems facing the migration of the social grants scheme - four months before the April 1, 2018, deadline.
The scheme would rely on South Africa's well developed and regulated electronic payment systems, which account for 80% of all social grant transactions currently.