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SASSA PAYMENTS FOR NEW CYCLE OF SRD R350 GRANT WILL BE PAID FROM WEDNESDAY

SASSA payments for new cycle of SRD R350 grant will be paid from Wednesday.

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) says payments for the new cycle of the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress Grants (SRD) R350 grant – from April 2022 – will be paid as from mid-June 2022.

On Monday, SASSA said it will continue clearing outstanding payments from the previous cycle as and when the bank details are confirmed.

“The payments will not be done together, but will be done month by month. More than one payment may be made in a month, but no one will receive double payments in amount,” the agency said.

SASSA said it will do these multiple payments in a month until the backlog has been finalised, where after monthly payments will resume.

Briefing media after Cabinet’s meeting last week, Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele, reiterated government’s commitment to pay out the R350 SRD grant to beneficiaries.

This came after media reported that some grant beneficiaries had not received payments for up to three months.

“This government will always fulfil whatever undertaking it has [with regards to the SRD]. If there was a period of non-payment… on behalf of this government, we will make that apology.

“But as along as those SRDs are due, in line with the President’s commitment, they will be paid,” Gungubele said.

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  1. The Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu had ampil time as from the date the persident announced that the distress grant will be extended but still failed as a minister to produce service delivery on those who are in need of the R350, some individuals had to borrow money from others just to get them through these months because government has failed them and the same borrowed money was even paid to individuals accounts. Worse case scenario is that the agency will therefore enquire to banks and find out that monies borrowed was even paid in some individuals bank accounts and the agency will determine that these individuals are receiving a stipend and will definitely decline some individuals from getting their distress grants, indicating that individuals has been declined due to other income received but without knowing that these are monies that was borrowed just to get them through these months of distressed. I think that the Minister’s salary should be stopped for the same period of three months then we will see if she can survive without her salary for the period, but as long as she is still receiving her salary every month she forgets the fact that there are people really struggling in todays economy due to unemployment and the poverty rate in South Africa.

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