Disability grant reinstated after SASSA suspension
An elderly couple from Linmeyer living with their 46 year-old son Gregory who is mentally challenged and 19-year-old grandson Daniel who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, say that their social grants have been reinstated.
Mrs Klibby revealed that their two year struggle to have the disability grants reinstated by SASSA (South African Security Agency) after Gregory’s monthly grant was cut-off for two months due to the national re-registration campaign.
“Gregory’s grant didn’t come in for two months because we had to again go through the process of re-registering him but we also experienced problems with Daniel’s grant because the doctor at SASSA had only given him a renewal for one year,” explained Dennis Klibby.
Daniel had been diagnosed at Francis Vorwerg School as being mentally challenged but the documentation proved insufficient for officials who ordered that the Klibby’s have him re-examined.
The right of people with disabilities to receive a monthly grant from SASSA reportedly had not been carried out efficiently since the re-registering process early this year.
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini in March announced the extension of the re-registration of social grants to April 30, allowing those who qualify the chance to have their details on the database. After the expiration of the grace period, at least 110 000 grants were cancelled with an estimated monetary value of R150 million saved after the cancellations.
“We went through this whole process of re-registering which cost us about R40 a day travel fees in order to register our son and get the disability grant again,” said the elderly couple from Linmeyer who have a son and grandson both diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
Dennis Klibby and his wife are both pensioners who say that they had been sent from pillar to post by rude officials, since they re-registered Gregory and grandson Daniel, who have been reinstated to full disability.
