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Incident 16063 Report
SASSA Facial-Verification Failures Reportedly Contributed to Social Grant Access Disruptions in South Africa
2026-03-30
South African social grant beneficiaries reportedly encountered repeated failures in SASSA's eLife facial-verification portal. Later parliamentary reporting said unsuccessful facial recognition was among the causes of non-verification and confirmed 67,868 grant suspensions in one quarter, but did not specify how many suspensions resulted from facial-verification failures. Affected users were redirected to in-person fingerprint checks.
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