Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu has promised that in the next two months her department will no longer pay grant beneficiaries in cash.

Social grant payments by the SA Post Office are continuing without any glitches, Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu said.

SAPO said it had completed upgrades to its national social grants IT system in time for the end-of-July payments cycle.

Sassa has issued a warning that social grant beneficiaries are being deceived to take a certain bank card.

The DA in the Western Cape said it was appalled by the failure of Sassa officials to appear before the provincial parliament's standing committee.

Legal action against CPS employees who are interfering with the migration to the new system, said Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu.

Sassa has distanced itself from a "fake news article" which claims that the agency accidentally paid 17,000 illegal immigrants.

Sassa, which has been experiencing problems in paying beneficiaries, said it had stabilised its system and had paid out about R746 million of the R1 billion for grant payments.

The DA has called on Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu to ensure that its Gauteng offices have open lines of communication with the public.

"No self-respecting country does this to its own people and no amount of explaining will undo what has happened."

Sanco has blamed the migration crisis that resulted in about 700 000 beneficiaries not receiving their Sassa grants on time on poor planning.

Beneficiaries battling to get money using new cards

Problems with payments of social grants, including pensions, were expected to be resolved by the end of the week the South African Social Security Agency said.

An interdict application by Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu against striking PSA members at Sassa was due to be heard at the labour court

The DA said it was concerned by reports from social grant beneficiaries of systems glitches which had resulted in failure to cash monthly payouts.

The Banking Association SA (Basa) is investigating the conduct of SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the SA Post Office