Sassa apologises for late social relief grant payments
Sassa has reassured all recipients that payments will be made as soon as the administrative processes have been completed.
THE SOUTH African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has apologised to Covid-19 social relief grant recipients for the delay in payments in March and April.
“The end of March is the end of the financial year for government and various administrative tasks are required before any payments which relate to the previous financial year can be made. Sassa is currently busy with the end of financial year tasks which has delayed payment,” said Memela.
“All private and public institutions whose processes constitute dependencies have been roped in and are working tirelessly with Sassa to stabilise the situation. Sassa would like to apologise for this break in the payments and would like to reassure all deserving applicants for the relief grant who have been affected that payments will be made as soon as the administrative processes have been completed,” said Memela.
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