R4000 taken from 89-year-old's pension for a loan he never took out

15 August 2016 - 10:09
By Alide Dasnois

Eighty-nine-year-old pensioner Sipho Bani had to spend several months and more than R400 to stop deductions from his old age pension on repayments for a loan he never took out. Between May 2015 and February 2016‚ R4391 was deducted from his South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) branded account in repayments for a loan from FAJ Financial Solutions - a Uitenhage company Bani‚ who lives in Nyanga‚ had never heard of.

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