Yes.
Steps taken to prevent social grant fraud and to take corrective action where necessary 61. Mrs S P Kopane (DA) asked the Minister of Social Development:
(1) With reference to her reply to question 152 on 27 May 2011, what (a) strategy, (b) policy and (c) programmes currently exist to prevent social grant fraud from occurring in the absence of the Office of the Inspectorate for Social Assistance, which is to be established in the course of the 2013-14 financial year;
(2) which department or entity within her Ministry is currently conducting the interrogation of data on the social pension system (Socpen) to identify suspicious grants, to check and confirm the eligibility of beneficiaries and take corrective steps where cases of alleged fraud are uncovered;
(3) whether she has taken any steps to deal with the general information technology utilised by her department in light of the report by the Auditor-General for the year ending 31 March 2010, which stated that the social pension system was not designed to maintain the integrity of the information system and security of data; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? NO1770E