Topic: SASSA

SASSA reminds beneficiaries that all R350 grants must be collected before 30 November or the grants will be forfeited.

SASSA has questions to answer following the revelations made by the Auditor-General.

Protestors gather outside the Thokoza SASSA branch, claiming that officials have been insisting on bribes starting at R50.

SASSA announced that they have paid nearly 6 million of their Covid-19 SRD grant applicants and reminded others when and how payments will proceed.

SASSA had to act fast when a social media post error effected payment dates for all grants. As a result, payment will be made one day later.

SASSA says only 8 million of the 13 million people who applied for the R350 grant were approved.

Unemployed caregivers without an SA ID are now eligible for the R350 SASSA grant. The assigned ‘7777’ code must be used to apply for the grant.

The Social Development Minister has announced that over 177 000 receivers of the social grants would have to prove that they are eligible in receiving it.

Homes and lives lost in settlement fires. With just under 1200 fires having been responded to in Cape Town, this year alone.

SASSA once again has to put a stop to fake news claiming that those who have not been vaccinated are not eligible for the R350 grant.

President Ramaphosa is in the midst of setting a plan together to extend the SRD R350 grant, and hoping to set a new grant in place.

SASSA announces that 11.5 million beneficiaries have been approved for the R350 grant, days after having to face racial profiling accusations.

”I do not even have money to go back home if I don’t get paid today. I am hungry” says hopeful beneficiary