Government, set to miss a deadline to appoint a new distributor of welfare grants worth about R140bn/year to more than 17m people, asked aspirant bidders to an information session as the end of a contract with Net1 UEPS
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The social development department’s ability to continue to make monthly welfare payments to about 17m people is in jeopardy because it ignored advice from the central bank, two people familiar with the situation said. The department
Government may extend its deal with Net1 UEPS Technologies, a company that it has been embroiled in legal battles with, because it’s not ready to make welfare payments worth about R129bn/year when the contract ends
Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini is soon to make an announcement about the payment of social grants by the South African Social Security Agency amid fears of a disaster when the
Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini could not provide answers on Wednesday about her department’s readiness to take over the social grants scheme. Dlamini and members of the South African Social Security Agency
The South African Social Security Agency received a roasting by parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday over R1,1bn in irregular expenditure in 2015/2016. Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza was in attendance
The South African Social Security Agency’s irregular expenditure over the last financial year skyrocketed by over a thousand percent, from R93m in 2014/2015 to over R1bn in 2015/2016. The bulk of the R1,1bn
The CEO of Net1 UEPS Technologies, which has the contract to distribute South Africa’s R129bn in annual welfare payments, said he isn’t “remotely concerned” about the outcome of a court case that could stop deductions for services such as funeral
Government is facing a counter legal challenge in a dispute with Net1 UEPS Technologies with a rights group demanding that it protect welfare recipients from companies that are allegedly selling the nation’s poorest
South African welfare-grant distributor Net1 UEPS Technologies said a state agency has breached the constitution by amending regulations to prevent deductions from the payments to some of the country’s