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GDE Explains Payment Delays for Education Assistants: DBE Verification Process to Blame – The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) wishes to clarify that the unfortunate delays in payments to Education and General Assistants is due to the processes being undertaken by the Department of Basic Education (@DBE_SA), which is responsible for the centralised vetting, and verification, and payment of all candidates in this programme nationally.
The DBE acknowledged that their new centralised payment system introduced for Phase V is experiencing challenges such as verifying candidate ID numbers against the Department of Home Affairs database, matching those ID numbers and names to the correct bank account details, and resolving discrepancies where candidate data does not align with application data on the SAYouth platform.
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While the DBE did indicate that these processes were intended to strengthen accountability and reduce the risk of fraud; they have caused a widespread delay to the release of payments to some candidates, including in Gauteng.
Although Gauteng’s data verification is largely complete and validated at school and district level, some of our candidates remain affected by this delay due to the DBE national centralisation of the payment process.
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We remain hopeful that the DBE will fast-track and conclude their verification processes to ensure that all youth employed at our schools are paid without any further delay.