Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has ordered Sassa to conduct an analysis of the payment of the current iteration of the R350 social relief of distress (SRD) grants.
"I am not really happy with the numbers that have been applied and approved. I am looking at the last iteration with the numbers that were right up to 11 million," Zulu said.
She made the statement when she was responding to oral questions in the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Good Party MP Brett Herron said Zulu had in October stated that changes envisaged to the regulations governing the payment of the grant would allow more people to qualify.
He asked about the number of beneficiaries currently receiving the R350 grant under the new threshold, and the details of any changes in the number of applications since the amended thresholds.
In her response, Zulu said: "I have asked Sassa to do an analysis of the decrease month-to-month, year-on-year and also be able to present what the variables are because when all is said and done we should not be far from what we were paying originally."
