Addressing Parliament’s Select Committee for Health and Social Services earlier this week, SASSA said it experienced “teething problems” with the payment of the grant after the new system of monitoring applicants’ bank accounts for income was introduced. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks Delays with the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant payments are expected in August, says SASSA
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu gazetted new regulations raising the income threshold for the means test from R350 to R624 per month.
The department had proposed that the “Covid” grant continues while legislative matters are ironed out for a basic income support. […]
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