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‘Money lenders again’: Pensioner warns SASSA reviews are pushing elderly into debt

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‘Money lenders again’: Pensioner warns SASSA reviews are pushing elderly into debt
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While SASSA’s payment schedule dominates headlines, one Facebook comment has pulled focus to a far more damaging consequence. Hester Viljoen wrote that when elderly beneficiaries can’t afford transport to SASSA offices for a review, “here comes the money lenders again,” describing a cycle in which pensioners borrow “R60 or R100 transport “and end up having to “pay back R300 plus again.”



The claim paints a picture of a debt trap triggered not by

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