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BusinessLive reports that the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) lost about R11m after 31,955 people improperly benefited from the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant.
Sassa’s Dianne Dunkerley told MPs that the agency investigated all beneficiaries after it emerged from a March report by the auditor-general that 67,000 people might have benefited from the grant even though they were not entitled to it, while some were overpaid. The R350 SDR grant was introduced in 2020 and ran until April 2021. It was reintroduced in July and will be paid until March 2022. The grant is aimed at providing assistance to “persons in dire material need that are unable to meet their families’ most basic needs”, including those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The agency warned last Friday that it would take action against government employees who unlawfully benefited from the grant. “Sassa exercises zero tolerance to any deliberate attempt to access social grants by people who do not qualify for these. Further action will be taken where it is found ineligible public servants have continued to receive these grants,” the agency warned.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Cebelihle Bhengu at BusinessLive
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