Lack of doctors continue to hamper SASSA s disability grant applications
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) once again calls on the Department of Social Development (DSD) to urgently increase its efforts to recruit more medical doctors to assess disability grant applicants.
Sassa to deal with hundreds of thousands of expiring grants
By Mayibongwe Maqhina
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Cape Town - Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said 210 778 temporary disability grants, 222 021 disability-related grants and 11 234 care dependency grants are due to lapse at the end of December.
She revealed this in response to parliamentary questions from DA MP Alexandra Abrahams. We are now working on a plan to address the significant number which will expire at the end of December, costing approximately R1.2 billion, Zulu said. This estimated cost cannot be accommodated within the existing budget, so we are considering alternatives to prevent bulk lapsing on December 31, 2020, by introducing staggered dates for lapsing between December 2020 and March 2021 to manage the influx for citizens who may wish to re-apply for the disability grant.â
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The government needs a whopping R1.2 billion if it wants to extend temporary disability and care dependency grants to more than 200 000 beneficiaries until March next year.
This was revealed in Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu s reply to a parliamentary question.
Zulu was responding to questions from DA MP Alexandra Abrahams who wanted details on the budgetary and expenditure implications for her department and the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) should all disability and care dependency be extended until 31 March 2021. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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Sassa has 10 officials processing thousands of R350 unemployment grants
By Mayibongwe Maqhina
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Cape Town – The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has come under criticism for allocating a core team of 10 officials to handle appeals made by people whose application for R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant were rejected.
This after Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu disclosed in a parliamentary response to DA MP Alexandra Abrahams the number of officials handling the appeals.
Abrahams had asked the number of Sassa personnel assigned and solely dedicated to the special Covid-19 social relief of distress grant appeal process, among other things.