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Insecurity in South African Social Security: An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting

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  • Natasha Thandiwe Vally

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In 2012, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) contracted a private company, Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), to design a standardised national social assistance payment and registration system. The national card-based biometric enrolment and payment system was advanced as a way to make social grant payment more secure – for claimants, the state, and the national fiscus. In practice, however, it translated into forms of insecurity, which served to promote and reproduce precarity. This article considers some of these insecurities, with a focus on the three most pervasive: the cancellation of grants, the expansive, unauthorised monetary deductions from claimants’ accounts, and the new kinds of waiting that the system introduced.

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  • Natasha Thandiwe Vally, 2016. "Insecurity in South African Social Security: An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting," Journal of Southern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(5), pages 965-982, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjssxx:v:42:y:2016:i:5:p:965-982
    DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2016.1223748
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