BUDGET: Treasury targets grant fraud and fraudulent claims [SOUND]

 # National Treasury has identified 13-billion-rand in savings over the next three years by reducing fraud in social grants. The government plans to extend similar verification measures to student bursaries and housing subsidies. The checks include biometric enrolment and cross-checking government databases to detect duplicate or fraudulent claims. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says the savings form part of a wider 38.1-billion-rand effort to redirect spending from low-priority programmes, administrative inefficiencies and fraud towards other priorities: