Millions of people are set to benefit from SRD grant payments during the final month of the 2025. Sassa has confirmed the ...

The investigation into fraud in Sassa’s SRD grant application system has failed to answer critical questions. A month ago Stellenbosch University students Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras explained to ...

South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) beneficiaries whose Social Relief of Distress (SRD) applications have been approved can expect to receive their R370 payments during the final week of July ...

The SRD grant was introduced during the Covid pandemic to assist people in dire need. About nine-million of these R370 grants are paid out monthly now. It is potentially the basis for a universal ...

The Department of Social Development (DSD) and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) have issued a warning to applicants of the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (cSRD) grant about ...

The South African government is investigating alleged “vulnerabilities” in the application processes and IT systems used by South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) for the payment of social ...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has urged all applicants for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant of R370 to use cell phone numbers that are registered in their names ...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) SRD grant status determines whether beneficiaries receive payments each ...

Civil society organisations including the Black Sash, #PayTheGrants, the Social Policy Initiative and the Institute for Economic Justice are calling for urgent clarification from the Department of ...

The Department of Social Development proposes removing questions about income from the Social Relief of Distress grant applications. Advocacy groups #PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic ...