The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) praised provincial social grant beneficiaries for “playing by the book”.

During a radio interview in Kimberley recently, Sassa national spokesperson Kgomoco Diseko said among all the provinces in the country, the Northern Cape had the least reports of corruption and fraud on grants allocations.

“Grant fraud is rife in other provinces. For example, a parent would instead of registering one child for a child support grant give false information that she had triplets or twins and she would register them under false names and IDs. In this province you hardly ever come across such reports – people here play by the book,” Diseko said.

Diseko advised social grant beneficiaries who have re-registered for their grant and obtained the new chip-and-pin Sassa payment card to ignore belated letters requesting them to re-register.

“The post office strike delayed the sending out of these letters and they are currently being delivered in an effort to clear the postal backlog.”

Diseko said the Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini, had extended re-registration deadline by a month until today. “Everyone who has not re-registered any type of grant by now and is not in possession of the new card needs to present themselves and their children receiving child grants, if applicable,” he said.

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