It’s been quite a rollercoaster for SASSA Old Age Grants in 2024. We retrace our steps and look ahead to better things in the New Year …
It’s been quite the year for SASSA Old Age Grants in 2024 when you look at it with the benefit of hindsight. The year started out beneath a dark looming cloud. We were five-months out from the May General Election, and all the ANC’s electioneering centred onfrom SASSA Old Age Grants. However, February’s budget speech from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana had a different refrain. The minister wasMany will be happy to see the end of a tricky 2024.
Newly gazetted regulations now said the department could take back and “recover all monies paid to any person in the event that such a person was not entitled to benefit from the grant”. This represented a zero-tolerance approach to any questionable activity and saw the implementation of biometric verification to halt identify theft. Something many poor beneficiaries have battled with ever since.
Minister Tolashe’s term in office started off relatively smoothly, and many celebrated the SASSA Old Age Grants increase in October. This raised benefits to. But there was trouble on the horizon internally. The minister suspended SASSA CEO Busisiwe Memela with pay and replaced her with Gauteng Regional Executive Themba Matlou as acting CEO with immediate effect. This is until a full investigation into Memela’s appointment is complete.
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