{"id":226466,"date":"2026-03-09T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kavango-west-cro-calls-for-easier-pension-and-social-grant-payouts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:27:15","slug":"namibia-kavango-west-cro-calls-for-easier-pension-and-social-grant-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kavango-west-cro-calls-for-easier-pension-and-social-grant-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kavango West Cro Calls for Easier Pension and Social Grant Payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Kavango West Regional Council chief regional officer Matheus Singambwe has called for reforms to the pension and social grant payment system, including allowing beneficiaries to collect multiple grants in a single visit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Singambwe made the remarks during NamPost&#8217;s regional stakeholder engagement on the implementation of the national social grant payment administration at Nkurenkuru on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Addressing challenges within the pension payment system, he said rigid payout rules and system &#8220;locking&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavango West Regional Council chief regional officer Matheus Singambwe has called for reforms to the pension and social grant payment system, including allowing beneficiaries to collect multiple grants in a single visit. Singambwe made the remarks during NamPost&#8217;s regional stakeholder engagement on the implementation of the national social grant payment administration at Nkurenkuru on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6137,14313,17881,13356,9725,4706,724,257,11193,8450,3577,254,4375],"class_list":["post-226466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cro","tag-easier","tag-grant","tag-kavango","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-payouts","tag-pension","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}