Parliament has called on Sassa to reintroduce its identity verification system for SRD grants.
Parliament has called on the South African Social Security Agency to reinstate the system used to verify the identities of grant beneficiaries.
“The Minister must intervene and ensure that the verification system is brought back online to enable the deserving beneficiaries to receive their grants,” Masango said. After scraping the database, Cedras and Gosai found that nearly 75,000 grant applications were made for people born in February 2005.
All three credit bureaus denied the allegation, telling MyBroadband they had found no evidence indicating a breach of their systems. This was in addition to the personally identifying information needed to look up this information, such as full names and ID numbers. They also had the journalists’ home addresses.
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