Sassa's 3 phase plan to take over grant payments
6 March 2017
Pretoria – Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has a plan in place to take over the distribution of social grants to 17 million beneficiaries.
This is the agency's plan:
- Phase 1: Planning for the transition including the phase-out of the current service provider, which must be done between the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years.
Sassa has told the Constitutional Court the following: