Sassa
Relief in sight for over 200k Sassa disability grant applicants
Sassa officials told Parliament they expect all the medical assessments to be completed by the end of March, after bringing more doctors on board to conduct...
Lindiwe Zulu and Sassa officials briefed the committee after being called to account for the lengthy queues and violent incidents that unfolded at the agency’s offices this past week.
Police used water cannon to enforce social distancing by elderly and disabled grant recipients outside Sassa’s Bellville offices in the Western Cape on Friday while one person died while queueing in Durban.
There have been long queues outside various Sassa offices in Cape Town as thousands of beneficiaries reapply for temporary disability grants that were suspended at the end of last month.
Provincial Social Development MEC Sharna Fernandez met with a delegation from Sassa on Monday.
The Social Assistance Amendment Bill and the Prescription in Civil and Criminal Matters (or Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill were signed by Ramaphosa on 20 December and announced by Parliament this week.
Black Sash demanded that Sassa reinstate and extend the temporary disability grants that lapsed at the end of last month until March this year.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu is also visiting the office after numerous complaints were raised.
More than 200,000 beneficiaries have been left hanging after grant payments lapsed at the end of last month.
Sassa beneficiaries in Gugulethu were left frustrated with the long queues they had to endure to get basic services.
Hundreds of beneficiaries have been queuing for hours at various offices to renew their grants.
The organisation said that nationally, more than 200,000 grant beneficiaries had been affected, after payments lapsed at the end of last month.
Thousands of beneficiaries have been queueing to renew their grant applications.
Hundreds of beneficiaries have been queuing for hours at various offices to renew their grants.
Around 53,000 beneficiaries in the Western Cape could not receive their grant payments this month, as temporary disability grants lapsed at the end of December.
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke on Wednesday delivered the second COVID-19 relief fund audit report.
The city has also emphasised that it is committed to dealing with fraud and corruption and ensuring that there are consequences for wrongdoing.
Police confirmed post offices in Belhar and Bishop Lavis were targeted.
Close to 80 organisations said the COVID-19 social relief of distress grant and the caregivers grant must be extended until the country had a comprehensive plan for guaranteed basic incomes.