Sassa grant agreement will be signed within 10 days
Source: Sowetanlive, by Khulekani Magubane
Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe told a joint sitting of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the portfolio committee on social development that the inter-ministerial committee on social security would have an agreement on grant provision by next week.
Radebe was briefing the MPs following a directive for National Treasury to facilitate an agreement between the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the SA Post Office (Sapo) )on the provision of grants to more than 17m South Africans from April next year.
A deadlock developed despite the Constitutional Court ruling invalidating Cash Paymaster Services as a service provider in the provision of grants and instructing Sassa to develop capacity to provide grants on its own.