SASSA

The payment system challenges have been resolved from Saturday afternoon (5 November 2022).

Postbank will send out a notification when the matter is resolved.

SASSA said the number of people approved for the grant plummeted from 10.9 million in March to just under 4.8 million in April.

The current estimate is R536.7 million was stolen, against a budget of R1.5 trillion since the 2012/13 financial year.

The substantial drop follows a change in the qualification criteria, with applicants having to go through R625 means test threshold to qualify for the grant.

This comes after its customer-care unit in Mpumalanga received complaints from beneficiaries who failed to process the EFT payments.

Even though the fake job post included what appears to be an official Sassa email, the real catch here was a bit.ly link.

The accused pleaded guilty to murder, fraud, theft of bank and SASSA cards, defeating the ends of justice and perjury

R350 SRD grant beneficiaries must confirm after every three months whether they still need the grant

Out of 11.4 million applicants for the month of June, only 5.2 million beneficiaries were approved

SASSA to help R350 grant recipients find jobs

SASSA grant payments are paid within the first week of the month

Technical glitch blamed for delayed SRD R350 grant payments

Lindiwe Zulu has proposed the threshold for people who receive the grant to include people who earn R624 or less per month.

As the month of June comes to an end, the South African Social Security Agency has recently confirmed the payment date for July.

Sassa has made 750 000 SRD payments but will only make back payments for August 2021 and November 2021

President Cyril Ramaphosa confirms that the R350 grant payments will commence from next week, after two months of delays.

Social relief payments to resume from mid-June after being delayed by means-testing.

The SA Post Office warns all SASSA SRD grant collectors to not pay any bribes to the self-proclaimed queue marshals to skip the line.

Another batch of SRD grants is available for collection via the ID number system and SASSA beneficiaries can collect at post offices.

The online R350 SRD grant applications are officially open again since it no longer falls under the Disaster Management Act.

If approved, beneficiaries of the SRD Disaster Grant will receive funding from SASSA for 1 month to fulfil the basic needs of their families.

Get all your information on the SASSA R350 SRD Grant - who can apply, when to apply and what to have ready before applying.

Another batch of SRD grants are available for collection via the ID number system and SASSA clients can collect at post offices.