Insecurity in South African Social Security

An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4603263
AutoresNatasha Thandiwe Vally (University of the Witwatersrand, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo5
Páginas965-982
Data de publicação2016-09-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070.2016.1223748
OpenAlexW2529249590
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

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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