Insecurity in South African Social Security

An Examination of Social Grant Deductions, Cancellations, and Waiting

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4603263
AutoresNatasha Thandiwe Vally (University of the Witwatersrand, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen42
Número5
Páginas965-982
Fecha de publicación2016-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Southern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-7070 • E-ISSN: 1465-3893
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057070.2016.1223748
OpenAlexW2529249590
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17

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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