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ConCourt allows Sassa to extend contract with CPS

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The Constitutional Court has ruled that the Social Security Agency (Sassa) may continue to work with grants distributor Cash Paymaster Services for a six-month period.

However, conditions include detailed reporting to the court on making arrangements for Sassa’s own administering of grants. The Social Development Minister must file monthly reports and update the court on any changes in the arrangement.

Sassa must also ensure that the personal data of beneficiaries remains private and is used for no other purposes than the payment of social grants.

Meanwhile, Corruption Watch has welcomed the Constitutional Court judgment ordering grants distributor Cash Paymasters Services (CPS) to pay back over a R3 million it unlawfully received from the Sassa.

In delivering the judgment, Justice Moroa Tsoka ordered CPS to pay the money it received from June 2014 to date with accrued interest.

Corruption Watch approached the court in March 2015 to ask it to declare the transaction between Sassa and CPS unlawful.

Corruption Watch CEO, David Lewis says the judgment is an important step towards the eradication of corruption in the country.

“It also reinforces our call to the criminal justice authority which we have made over many years to examine the relationship between Sassa, CPS and the Social Development ministry which has since inception been surrounded by allegations of corruption and criminality and while we are confined to reviewing irregular procurement processes the criminal justice authority need to do their work in relation to this relationship as well,” says Lewis.

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