The DA on Friday called on social development minister Lindiwe Zulu to take responsibility after Sassa was only able to pay the R350 social distress grant to 10 people.
Masango slammed Sassa, which had more than three weeks to plan, verify and approve a significant proportion of the applications.
Sassa spokesperson Sandy Godlwana said she was unable to comment on grant-related queries and referred queries to another spokesperson, Paseka Letsatsi, who could not be reached at the time of publishing., Memela-Khambula said the agency had received more than 4.5- million applications, following which 2.6-million had been verified.
Memela-Khambula confirmed only 10 people had been paid thus far, but said the agency was ready to pay 100,000 people after they had loaded their banking details on their system. However, Masango said the non-payment was an indication of how the government continues to neglect the poor.
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