Sassa beneficiaries warned of fraudsters
The fraudsters spread wrong information claiming that the Sassa card will not have money at the beginning of August 2018.
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has been made aware that social grant beneficiaries are being deceived to take a certain bank card.
Sassa has given the assurance to all social grant beneficiaries that the glitches experienced at the beginning of July have been resolved and that their grant money will be on the new gold card as from August 1, 2018.
Beneficiaries are urged to make enquiries by visiting their nearest Sassa office and at existing pay point or nearby post offices.
The new Sassa card swap is only issued at Pay-points, Sassa offices and South African Post Office and it has many benefits.
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The card is identified as follows:
• It has the South African flag on the left side, Mastercard logo on the right and bears the Sassa insignia at the top.
• The card gives the beneficiary three free cash withdrawals at merchants and one free cash withdrawal per month from the post office.
• One free ATM balance enquiry per month.
• All swipes are free of charge and it is compliant with Eurocard, MasterCard and Visa, which means it is accepted at all merchants and ATMs around the country that display the Visa sign.
• No illegal deductions (only 10 per cent deduction of funeral policies will be allowed on non-child grants endorsed by the grant beneficiary).
Beneficiaries are urged to visit any Sassa office, post office or pay points to get the new card as the old Sassa card will be fully phased out by September 30, 2018.
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