{"id":161535,"date":"2017-03-02T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=161535"},"modified":"2017-03-02T11:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:55:25","slug":"social-grants-plan-b-is-to-drive-cash-trucks-into-townships-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/161535\/social-grants-plan-b-is-to-drive-cash-trucks-into-townships-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Social grants &#8220;Plan B&#8221; is to drive cash trucks into townships: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Department of Social Development has confirmed will use &#8220;cash trucks&#8221; to help pay out\u00a0social grants if ongoing negotiations with service provider CPS don&#8217;t pan out, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/thetimes\/2017\/03\/02\/Departments-Plan-B-to-pay-social-grants-Cash-trucks\" target=\"_blank\">Times Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">This was the answer fielded by social development director-general, Zane Dangor, when asked in a parliamentary oversight meeting how the department would distribute social grants should a new contract with Cash Paymaster Service not be concluded by the end of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">According to earlier reports by the department, negotiations for a new social grants distribution contract began on Wednesday and are expected to conclude before the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">However, the validity of the contract is still up in the air after a 2016 Constitutional court decision which found that the department had followed incorrect procedures in the awarding of the contract to CPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Social Development subsequently submitted an urgent application to have the contract extended\u00a0on Tuesday (28 February) but then withdrew the application within a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Sassa Spokesperson Kgomotso Diseko confirmed that the extension had been withdrawn because some &#8220;inputs (were) not included&#8221; \u00a0but noted that agency\u00a0would relodge the application,\u00a0at an undisclosed later date.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/160923\/__trashed-15\/\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no plan in place to pay 17 million social grants on 1 April: Sassa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Social Development has confirmed that it will use &#8220;cash trucks&#8221;  to help pay out social grants if ongoing negotiations with service provider CPS don&#8217;t pan out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-161535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-trending","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161535"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161565,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161535\/revisions\/161565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}