Sassa

Beneficiaries struggling with grants since SASSA closed Macassar office

“People are poor and cannot afford to travel far for services that should be here,” says resident

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Brief | 8 April 2024

Long queues at SASSA in Khayelitsha

Earlier this week residents picketed, demanding that a new office be built and for staff to be trained

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News | 14 February 2024

Disability grant applicants sleep outside this SASSA office

SASSA admitted that there had been “technical challenges with the online system” but that these had since been resolved

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News | 27 October 2023

“System glitch” stalls social grant payments to pensioners

Postbank says problem has mostly been resolved

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News | 6 September 2023

R350 grant: SASSA in court over “unfair” exclusions

Agency accused of turning down too many applicants

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News | 5 September 2023

Grant recipients unable to renew their cards as expiry date looms

Social grant beneficiaries are worried they won’t be paid in two weeks

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News | 24 April 2023

“Post office is crumbling under the pressure” says social grant activist

This comes as millions of gold SASSA cards will be expiring soon

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News | 6 April 2023

SASSA owes millions in outstanding municipal bills

One of the offices in Durban owed over R6-million in rent

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Brief | 17 January 2023

Long queues and constant system failures at SASSA Soshanguve office

SASSA blames staff shortages and loadshedding

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Brief | 16 January 2023

SASSA beneficiaries left stranded on Friday morning

They were told staff were having a party. GroundUp was told the same thing but the Western Cape SASSA spokesperson has denied this

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Brief | 13 December 2022

Closure of SASSA pay points “catastrophic” for pensioners in rural areas

Elderly people in rural Eastern Cape are paying R120 to go and collect their grants

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News | 15 September 2022

Loadshedding causes more hardship for grant recipients

Khayelitsha residents protested on Thursday, demanding SASSA open more service sites

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News | 30 June 2022

Bring back our post office, demand Fort Beaufort residents

Town’s only post office cannot cope with the numbers of social grant beneficiaries

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Brief | 3 March 2022

Taking healthcare to SASSA queues: pensioners screened for hypertension

About 60% of participants are found to have high blood pressure

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News | 10 February 2022

Post office, SASSA office, library and community centre have all closed down in Madiba’s hometown

Unpaid electricity bills and armed robberies have collapsed Qunu’s multi-purpose community centre

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News | 19 November 2021

Loadshedding causes social grant backlogs

SASSA says staff are manually filling out applications

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Brief | 18 November 2021