SASSA SRD grant: Securities Agency apologises to unpaid beneficiaries
SASSA said on Monday that they are committed to ensuring that all approved applicants for the R350 SRD grant are paid out.
The Social Securities Agency of South Africa (SASSA) have apologised to the millions of grant beneficiaries who were told that the deadline for the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant had expired on 30 April and that no further payments would be made. SASSA have subsequently insisted that all unpaid funds will be distributed soon to those who have had applications for the R350 unemployment grant approved.
SASSA wishes to unreservedly apologize to all unpaid clients of the special COVID-19 SRD grant for any inconvenience, this may have caused. The agency is committed to resolving this backlog. #SASSACARES#COVID19SRD@The DSD@GovernmentZA@GCISMedia@nda rsa@PostofficeSapic.twitter.com/5olmAUElgB SASSA (@OfficialSASSA) May 10, 2021
R350 grant: Applicants robbed outside Verulam post office
R350 grant applicants are being robbed by drug users outside the Verulam post office. Thirteen cases were received in one week.
Drug users are robbing and intimidating R350 COVID-19 Relief Grant applicants in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, a private security company Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) reported on Friday,30 April.
The company shared on its Facebook page that it has received an overwhelming thirteen complaints of robbery by drug users on Wick Street – Verulam within a week.
R350 GRANT RECIPIENTS ROBBED OF THEIR MONEY
The private security company said that the complainants in all the thirteen cases were robbed near the Verulam Post Office while waiting in line to collect the R350 COVID-19 Relief Grant.
SASSA latest: #PayTheGrants protesters gather at Bellville offices
Protesters across the country have demanded that the SASSA COVID-19 SRD grant for the unemployed be extended and payments increased.
Under the #PayTheGrant banner, dozens of people gathered outside SASSA offices in Bellville, Cape Town, on Friday afternoon to voice desperate calls for the Social Securities Agency to extend the payment deadline past today’s expiration date.
Scores of protesters have gathered outside post offices all over the country on Friday demanding that the SASSA R350 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant be extended and increased immediately.
SASSA SRD grant deadline not extended