Official reply:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION 334 /2014
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 14 March 2014
Internal question paper no: 06
334. Mr M Waters (DA) to ask the Minister of Social Development:
(1) How many persons have been removed from the social grant database
since the commencement of the re-registration process;
(2) (a) how many of these persons were found to be fraudulent and (b) how
many have been charged? NW387E
Reply:
1) A total of 1,015,489 social grants have been removed from the SOCPEN
system since the commencement of the re-registration process, factual
verifications of the re-registration back office process is still
being done before the files are to be sent to Fraud Management and
Compliance Unit.
2) (a) None.
(b) No person has been charged yet pending the finalization of the
verification process referred to in (1) above.