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Sassa resumes allocation of food relief vouchers after riots

Sassa resumes allocation of food relief vouchers after riots
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We can't extend temporary disability grants again, says Sassa CEO


We can t extend temporary disability grants again, says Sassa CEO
15 January 2021 9:27 AM
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The CEO of the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) says the agency can t extend the validity of temporary disability grants that have lapsed any further.
Human rights advocacy group Black Sash has called on Sassa to reinstate the temporary disability grants that were suspended at the end of December 2020.
More than 200,000 grant beneficiaries nationwide have been affected after payments lapsed at the end of last month.
About 50,000 of those 200,000 affected beneficiaries come from the Western Cape, says Sassa CEO Totsie Memela.
Memela explains that temporary grants that were supposed to lapse in February 2020 were extended to December last year to mitigate the impact of the State of National Disaster and the subsequent lockdown. ....

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