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SPECIAL PENSIONS ACT: DRAFT AMENDMENTS BILL GAZETTED FOR COMMENT
- 01 November 2024
- National Treasury
- SA Legal Academy
National Treasury has called for input by 1 December 2024 on a draft Special Pensions Amendments Bill intended to address ‘misalignments’ affecting the 1996 Act’s implementation. This is noting that the Act provides for the payment of a special pension to anyone deemed to have ‘made sacrifices or served the public interest’ during the process of establishing South Africa’s constitutional dispensation. With that in mind, the Act focuses on political activists during the apartheid era meeting certain criteria.
According to a memorandum on the draft Bill’s objects, once in force the amendments envisaged will among other things:
- provide for the retention of benefits determined before certain sections of the Act lapsed
- allow persons qualifying for more than one benefit to be granted the most advantageous among them
- allow the surviving spouse or other relative of a deceased beneficiary or one ‘presumed dead in law’ the right to a lump sum benefit, and
- provide for the condonation of late applications.
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Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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