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Sassa officials and 17 others in court for grant fraud Suspects allegedly abused disability grant system, netting R300,000 01 March 2021 - 11:06 By Peter Ramothwala The SA Social Security Agency was allegedly scammed by officials colluding with disability grant beneficiaries in Limpopo. Image: SUPPLIED The Hawks have dismantled one of the biggest disability grant fraud and corruption syndicates to hit the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) after the arrest of officials and undeserving beneficiaries in Limpopo. Sassa and Hawks officials, who can’t be named as they are not authorised to speak to the media, revealed how the agency was scammed by officials allegedly colluding with disability grant beneficiaries between 2018 and 2019 in Khobo village, outside Tzaneen. ....
Remote Scouting Series: Reading and Understanding Topographic Maps As much of Illinois is experiencing substantial snowfall and below average temperatures many of us are hunkered down inside waiting for the eventual onset of spring. As a hunter, I like to take this time to clean and organize my gear, practice my turkey calling skills, and spend time developing a plan for my scouting efforts for the upcoming turkey season. With recent technological advancements hunters now have modern tools that can aid in the hunt-planning and scouting process. Remote scouting is a technique that utilizes modern technology to better understand and predict how wildlife moves across the landscape. Remote scouting does not replace field scouting efforts but is best used in conjunction with field scouting and can create a feedback loop influencing your afield scouting efforts. Over the next few weeks, we will dive into remote scouting strategies, map-reading, and developing a scouting plan. Th ....
Illinois collects $205.4M in cannabis taxes Greg Bishop The Center Square Feb. 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SPRINGFIELD About $31 million from adult-use cannabis taxes is going to nonprofits in Illinois as part of the Restore, Reinvest and Renew, or the R3 program, and it’s not all going to Chicago. Cannabis sales for January neared $90 million. Since adult-use sales began in January 2020, nearly $757.9 million in cannabis has been sold. The taxes on that can be more than 40%, depending on the potency and whether a local sales tax is added on to the state taxes. For the state’s taxes, the total collected from January 2020 through last month totaled more than $205.4 million dollars. ....
Trumbull school finance audit raises more questions Donald Eng FacebookTwitterEmail 2of2 TRUMBULL The scope of the school system’s operational review surprised even the person who conducted it. The review was commissioned by the town council in early 2020 following the discovery of a looming budget shortfall. “These things are difficult to do by RFP (request for proposal), so I have to bid based on zero information,” Centofanti said. “So at some point it becomes, I could do a lot more work but I’ve already spent 70 hours over my projection. I did what I could but there’s certainly a lot more going on.” ....
Campaign has launched a global intelligence tool, Campaign Advertising Intelligence, that monitors the business performance of the world’s top advertising and media agencies. The tool represents a significant development for Campaign, marking the brand s commitment to providing data-led analysis of more than 1,000 agencies around the world and is Campaign s first truly global product. Through tracking individual media and creative agency account wins and losses, global and local award wins, and agency market share by sector, Campaign AI provides users with a highly powerful, time-efficient tool with which to monitor their own performance as well as that of their competitors, and conduct research for pitches. ....