Sassa is making progress against fraud, but there are likely many fraudulent grant applications made years ago that still receive money.
that the South African Social Security Agency will suspend payments of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant to fraudulent beneficiaries.
N4aughtySec also provided GroundUp with its evidence. We could not validate the claim that R175 million was stolen, but we were able to isolate a list of 2,404 known fraudulent Sassa SRD Grants and their associated fraudulent phone numbers.The list of fraudulent SRD grant also allowed us to analyse Sassa’s progress in tackling the problem.These require people to reapply for the SRD grant.
When we revisited the data on 21 January 2025, we were able to compare the changes that had occurred over the past two months.
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