Sassa CEO Themba Matlou emphasise that all the eligible grant beneficiaries with accounts at Postbank will continue receiving their grants. Image: Sassa.
(The Post News)– Postbank’s application to interdict the ending of its master service agreement (MSA) with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has been struck off the roll. The North Gauteng High Court on Friday said the urgent application by Postbank lacked urgency, agreeing with SASSA’s submission. Judge Collis further stated that Postbank has been aware of Sassa’s intention to terminate the MSA since March 2024.
Sassa Chief Executive Officer Themba Matlou welcomed the judgement, saying it reaffirmed Sassa’s stance all along that the termination of the MSA has no bearing and will not disrupt social grant payment to the beneficiaries receiving their grants through Postbank. He expressed their satisfaction with the ruling and underlined that all qualified grant recipients who have Postbank accounts will keep getting their awards. Additionally, they would help their beneficiaries open an account with any bank of their choosing to receive their social grant. In this case, the termination of the MSA has no effect on the grants that those with Postbank will continue to receive.
Matlou stressed Sassa’s commitment to the distribution of social grants to all eligible and deserving beneficiaries and reiterated that the agency was ramping up efforts in enhancing the integrity of the administration and payment of the social grants system.
“All the decisions that we take are in the best interest of our beneficiaries, and we do this to safeguard the rights of social grant beneficiaries as best as we can. We also want to enable an environment where clients can freely choose how they access their grants,” said Matlou.
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