SASSA payments to be paid on June 3rd, 4th and 5th as vetting continues for social relief grant
Anyone receiving any other form of government assistance such as NSFAS, pension, UIF and insurance, are not eligible to receive the grant.
MBOMBELA – SASSA grant recipients will receive payment from June 3rd and 4th for pensioners and persons with disabilities, according to the SASSA Mpumalanga spokesperson, Senzeni Ngubeni.
He added that this payment would include linked child grants and added that all other grants would be paid from June 5th.
Since the introduction of the R350 social relief grant, only 10 recipients of the millions of unemployed South Africans who had applied, have received any payments.
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Ngubeni attributed this to the more than five million applications received by SASSA’s head office.
“The applications for the R350 social relief grant are processed through our head office and applicants have to undergo a strict vetting process to ensure that they are eligble.
“Thus far, 10 payments were made, which equates to almost one out every province. We must remember that anyone receiving any other form of government assistance such as NSFAS, pension, UIF and insurance, are not eligible to receive the grant,” said Ngubeni.
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He explained that the vetting process took up to seven days as checks were conducted to ensure that the grant is paid to qualifying recipients.
“There are a number of ways in which the payments will be made once it is rolled out at the end of the week. This includes directly into bank accounts, via e-wallet or at the post office for beneficiaries without access to phones or bank accounts.”
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Ngubeni also added that beneficiaries would be paid from the month in which the application was made until October this year, stipulating that no back payments would be made.
What this means is that beneficiaries applying later than May when the grant was introduced, would not receive any payments from May when government introduced the social relief grant.
