Browsing: Sassa

The South African Social Security Agency is piloting new systems in Bellville, including biometrics, self-service kiosks, and smarter queue management…

All social grants, barring the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, will increase in the next financial year. This…

Treasury, SASSA and the Department of Social Development are appealing a high court ruling that found several SRD grant regulations…

SASSA has extended its contract with Postbank by three months. The Master Services Agreement, which governs the payment of millions…

Postbank is asking the Pretoria High Court to stop SASSA from terminating its contract with the agency. The contract governs…

Postbank, once championed as a no-fee banking alternative for social grant recipients, has lost about 75% of its social grant…

The Public Protector has found that former SASSA CEO Busisiwe Memela-Khambula was irregularly appointed in 2019 by then-Minister of Social Development Susan…

Treasury may withhold funds from the SA Social Security Agency’s (SASSA) budget if the conditions attached to its budget are…

South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant beneficiaries using the black Postbank cards as well as the gold SASSA cards have…

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has delayed social grant payments of thousands of applicants who did not disclose…

The government has started a review of the social grant payment system, hoping to fix long-running problems that have affected…

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has encouraged all Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beneficiaries to ensure that…

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has blamed delays in death registrations and system limitations for its payment of…

More than two-million social grant beneficiaries still need to switch to the new Postbank Black Card, with the deadline recently…

Hundreds of SASSA recipients have been queuing in long lines in Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal, in a rush to replace their Gold…

SASSA has announced the suspension of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to beneficiaries suspected of fraud. Such…

We have previously reported that the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system is being defrauded. Here we explain how…

The DA notes reports that beneficiaries of South African Social Security Agency’s (SASSA) R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants…

Bonginkosi Nxumalo, an unemployed teacher from Daveyton in Benoni, has been getting the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant…

By Daniel Steyn Postbank announced this week that from April 2024 social grant beneficiaries will no longer be able to withdraw…

Postbank says it has fully restored ATM access for social grant beneficiaries a day after the system experienced a glitch.…

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) in Mpumalanga says approval of the R350 grant follows a process – one…

SASSA grant beneficiaries with gold cards expiring in the next few months can avoid long queues and payment mishaps by switching their payments,…

By Liezl Human The R350 Covid grant should be increased to R413 in line with inflation, say the Institute for Economic…

By Marecia Damons On Friday, Postbank acknowledged that a glitch had prevented many social grant recipients from accessing their January 2023…