South Africa Social Security All-In on Biometrics

SASSA gets biometric system (IT Web)

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) will re-register all its beneficiaries through a biometric enrolment system to ensure life verification and identity authentication of beneficiaries.

The article is very short but packed full of information about the problems the new system is built to address and estimates of how much money can be saved in the social security system.