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Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...
Social Development
SASSA Progress Report: briefing postponed; Social Development BRRR
18 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to first adopt its Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report. The Report was adopted by the Committee with no further amendments.
The Committee was then due to receive a progress report by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the Department of Social Development ...
Social Development
Social Development Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report
11 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
Members met to review its Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report on the performance of the Department of Social Development and its entities. The main issues that emerged were the failure of the observations to fully appreciate the impact of the delays that ...
Social Development
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) 2016/17 Annual Report
5 Oct 2017
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) briefed the Committee on its annual report for 2016/17. The Agency had investigated 65% of the reported fraud, theft, and corruption cases against the planned target of investigating 70%. There was a backlog of 933 cases being investigated. 150 ...
Social Development
Department of Social Development + NDA 2016/17 Annual Reports, with Auditor-General input
4 Oct 2017
The Auditor General of South Africa opened with a briefing on the Department of Social Development and its entities. South African Social Assistance Agency (SASSA) received a qualified opinion with findings. This qualification was due to the incompleteness of irregular expenditure, as systems and controls did not ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report, with Minister
6 Sep 2017
The Minister of Social Development complained about the route for reporting on work done by SASSA. The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) was expecting SASSA to report to them and SASSA scarcely had time to meet with the Portfolio Committee. The Minister had already written to the Speaker about ...
Social Development
Social grant payment system: SARB on their role, position & readiness; SASSA weekly report
1 Mar 2017
The South African Reserve Bank briefed the Committee on its role, position and readiness in the implementation of SASSA’s institutionalisation of its social grant payment system. SARB was not involved in the planning and implementation of the current SASSA grant payment system launched in 2012. CPS acquired the Grindrod Bank ...
Social Development
Minister & SASSA on readiness to implement Constitutional Court ruling
22 Feb 2017
The Minister of Social Development with the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the state of readiness for the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling. On progress made, DSD has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on 9 December 2016 and it closed on 10 ...
Social Development
SASSA on ensuring April 2017 social grant payments
1 Feb 2017
The Minister was absent for the briefing by SASSA on its state of readiness to take over grant payments. This raised much concern and questions by opposition members. They failed to accept the apology on the basis that the Minister is not taking a matter of national importance seriously. The ...