Social Assistance Act, 2004 (Act No. 13 of 2004)Chapter 3 : Administration of Social Assistance19. Abuse of social grants |
| (1) | Where the Agency has reasonable grounds to suspect that a beneficiary, parent, procurator, or a primary care giver is abusing the social grant, the Agency may appoint a person to investigate such suspected abuse. |
| (2) | If such person finds on objective grounds that such abuse has taken place, the Agency must appoint a person to receive the social grant on behalf of the beneficiary and to use it for the benefit of that beneficiary subject to any prescribed conditions. |
| (3) | The Agency may— |
| (a) | suspend payment of a child support grant, foster child grant or a care dependency grant to a parent, primary care giver, foster parent or procurator, where the parent, primary care giver, foster parent or procurator— |
| (i) | is convicted of abuse or neglect of the child in respect of whom he or she receives a grant; or |
| (ii) | is found by the Agency or the Inspectorate to be incapable of using a grant for the benefit of the child in respect of whom he or she received it; and |
| (b) | appoint a person to receive the grant in respect of such a beneficiary or child pending the substitution of such parent, primary care giver, foster parent or procurator as the case may be. |