Pensioners
SANParks aims to alleviate poverty in WC with community social legacy programme
SANParks has gifted a group of pensioners from Wilderness Heights on the Garden Route with food gardening tools and the relevant licences to fish.
Like many centres nationwide, the queues outside the Orlando Post Office have been extremely long, with some of the beneficiaries arriving in the early hours of the morning to try and be among the first to receive their grants.
Things got off to a shaky start on Monday in some parts of the country with hundreds of pensioners returning home empty-handed following a shortage of funds and payment glitches at several pay points.
Pensioners will also receive R250 more for the next six months as part of government’s COVID-19 relief programme.
Sassa said that about 83% of clients would have received duplicate payments unless the banks were able to reverse this prior to clients accessing their grants.
This is the last day pensioners and people with disabilities can collect their grants before other beneficiaries join the queues.
The foster care grant goes up to R1,000 a month while the child support grant will increase to R420 in April, and further to R430 by October.
Haji Mohamed Dawjee says there are lessons to be learnt from older people that go far beyond their engaging storytelling.
Humans are living longer, which puts additional strain on healthcare provision, social care and pensions.
Persons aged 65 years and older will benefit from the initiative that sets out to improve their access to public health services.
Jacobus Lambrechts offered false investment opportunities in property developments between 2007 and 2008.
Pensioners of the Ciskei Transport Corporation in 80s have been battling to get pensions paid out to them.
Beneficiaries who’ve had money deducted from their grants without authorisation will be refunded.
This includes a new rule that a beneficiary must first give Sassa permission in writing before any deduction.
The group has blocked three entrances to Parliament. They’re demanding their pension payouts.
Senior citizens have voiced their unhappiness over long queues at Sassa payout points.
More than 3 million elderly people around the country are struggling to make ends meet.
A deadline for a multi-billion rand tender to administer social welfare grants is drawing closer.
Lavona Carstens, her husband, and 19 other family members live in their home in Tafelsig, Cape Town. They live almost exclusively off govt grants and stretch their budget to new levels in order to survive.