SASSA’s plans to shorten queues and improve grant payment system

About 1.4-million people still need to replace their SASSA cards before the deadline on Thursday

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News | 14 March 2025

SASSA battling to find a permanent office in Khayelitsha

Agency plans to improve rented office space

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Brief | 13 March 2025

Budget: Social grants to increase and VAT goes up

Finance minister announces above-inflation grant increases

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News | 12 March 2025

SASSA gets about 80,000 new SRD grant applications each month

17.4-million people have applied for the Social Relief of Distress grant since it was introduced in May 2020

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Brief | 11 March 2025

Here’s how a disabled person spent their grant

We spent time with 31-year-old Khanyo Mantshi from Khayelitsha who says his grant falls short of his needs

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News | 10 March 2025

Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card

Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely

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News | 6 March 2025

About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms

Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”

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News | 4 March 2025

Serious flaws in SASSA system, MPs are told - again

Unclear why same investigators, with unclear qualifications for the job, have presented more or less the same obvious findings to Parliament a second time

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News | 26 February 2025

Can the SRD grant court order be implemented? Activists say yes

The Department of Social Development is to appeal the recent ruling. But #PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice say it should and can be implemented

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News | 19 February 2025