Death end for imbombozi grants fraudsters SAAS to re-register

Wednesday, 15 February 2012 14:06 Written by Khabza

end of the road Imbombozi are called (non-existent children) claim to be benefiting from Social grant without children. More than 15 million social grant recipients will have to re-register for their benefits as government attempts to eliminate fraud and corruption in the system.

MORE than 15 million social grant recipients will have to re-register for their benefits as government attempts to eliminate fraud and corruption in the system.

Dlamini said the re-registration process, which is to start in April, was aimed at ensuring that government paid social grants to the "correct recipients" following repeated revelations that there were people who received grants fraudulently.

"We want to ensure that we pay the correct recipients.,

"That is why we are going to re-register everyone, even children and older persons. We are going to visit them at their homes.

"We also want to deal with what has been said, that we sometimes pay the wrong people," said Dlamini.

There are currently 15,3-million people on the state's R100-billion social grants system, which includes 10,3-million children who receive support.

Eastern Cape provincial Sassa spokesman Luzuko Qina said the re- registration was part of a long-term plan from the department to enable them to have their own database of all social grant beneficiaries.
"In the past we’ve had many paymasters, each with their own database but now we want to become our own paymasters and register our own database which will be standard across the country," said Qina.

The new database will also aid in identifying fraudulent beneficiaries.

Qina added that all re-registered beneficiaries will be issued with a new Sassa card, which will allow them to withdraw their money from anywhere.

"These cards will be like a visa and people will be able to use them anywhere, including grocery stores and ATMs," he said.

Qina said the department would do their best to ensure a smooth transmission process during the re-registration. He said beneficiaries need to go to their existing paypoints where they will give their names and have their fingerprints taken.