Cape Town - The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is to re-register the more than 15 million social grant beneficiaries in the country, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini announced on Tuesday.
She said the move formed part of the agency's bid to rid the system of corruption and ensure that social grants were paid to the right people.
"The SIU (Special Investigations Unit) each year continues to uncover a series of cases where people receive social grants they are not eligible to...we want to ensure that we pay the correct recipients. We want to deal with this notion that we pay the wrong people," Dlamini said, during the Social Protection and Community Development Cluster media briefing on Tuesday.
She would not be drawn to assumptions that the re-registering process could lead to chaos in the system, saying the plan was to ensure that tax payers' money was not misused.
Authorities would do their best to ensure that no legitimate social grant beneficiary was negatively affected by the process.
"SASSA is developing a new payment model to be supported by effective administration and management systems to enable it to directly pay the right social grant to the right person njalo (always)," Dlamini said.
