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You should lay a complaint against the UIF at the Department of Employment and Labour.
You need an ID to apply for an RDP house, so I'm not sure how it would work with a Dompas. He should go to the municipality with his ID and ask for help.
No, it can’t be amended after her death.
Your mother should return to the municipality where she applied for the RDP house with her documents and ask them to investigate how it was wrongly awarded to someone she doesn’t know.
You first need to confirm his death was registered at the Master's Office so you can take his death certificate to Home Affairs and apply for your ID.
It depends whether your monthly provident fund withdrawals put you over the maximum allowed income to qualify for the disability grant.
Yes, but SASSA grants are means tested, and UIF and pension benefits count as income, so your grant will be less.
SASSA manually verifies every application, which takes very long. It could be that there is information missing but SASSA does not inform applicants when this is the case, so you need to keep checking
If you don’t have a bank account, there are other ways you can prove your income situation to SASSA.
Unfortunately, if your combined income exceeds the threshold, your application is unlikely to succeed, but you can appeal the decision.