30 May 2013
Black Sash said it welcomes the long
overdue decision by the South African Social Security Agency, to prevent
unlawful deductions being made from social grants by financial providers which
trade in mirco-loans.
Black Sash’s Elory Paulus said
social grant beneficiaries need to be vigilant and report and questionable
deductions from their social grants.
Paulus said they acre concerned
about the practices that money-lenders have unlawfully, unscrupulously and immorally
making deductions from grant beneficiaries.
“SASSA has committed itself not to
allow these deductions either than ten percent of the grant payments to be
deducted from the beneficiaries’ accounts only for funeral cover.
“Black Sash is cautiously optimistic
and is working very closely with authorities” Pulus added.
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