R350 grant

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R350 social grants to be issued in June: Minister Zulu - SABC News ... (SABC News)

SASSA Head Office building. The Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says all those who qualify and have applied for the R350 social relief grant will ...

Secondly, we are also working with the department of Economic development as well as Small and Medium Enterprises, because we believe that the next big thing that we must focus on, is to empower informal business, small and medium enterprises. We then decided, we are diverting some of that money into your small and medium and informal businesses, who lost their livelihoods.” Zulu says her department has allocated R44-million for the relief distress grant, which will be paid out to over 10 million South Africans every month.

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Qualified beneficiaries of R350 relief grant will receive money by ... (Eyewitness News)

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu tabled her department's 2022/2023 budget in Parliament on Friday morning.

I assure all qualified applicants that they will be in receipt of their payment for this iteration of the grant by June," the minister said. The minister tabled her 2022/2023 budget in Parliament on Friday morning. Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu tabled her department's 2022/2023 budget in Parliament on Friday morning.

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Post Office no longer paying R350 grant (Moneyweb.co.za)

The SA Post Office (Sapo) will no longer pay out the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in a bid to reduce long queues for other grant beneficiaries ...

“The system should be able to screen and direct people. Sapo said applicants and current beneficiaries must select the option on SRD website to collect their grant from the retail stores. He said the electronic queue management system to streamline the administration of grants had been piloted at the Benoni office.

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Zulu confirms R350 relief grants to be paid in June (News24)

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has announced that all those who qualify and have applied for the R350 social relief grant will receive the money ...

We then decided, we are diverting some of that money into your small and medium and informal businesses, who lost their livelihoods.” "Our system for checking whether people do deserve this money or not, is in place, hence we ask them to re-apply. This is in addition to the 18 million people that are already on other types of grants, including old age and child support," Zulu said.

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Social Grants: Minister Lindiwe Zulu Promises Recipients Will ... (Briefly)

Social relif grant recipients can expect their R350 payments to be made in June after Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu announced her budges on ...

However, the state of disaster was lifted in April. The department has said that it would need to create a framework for continued payment of the scheme. In cases where life has been lost, the agency will make two payments of R1,980 coming to one payment of R3 950 either in food vouchers or cash. Sassa will also provide school uniforms to learners who lost their belongings in the floods.

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Sassa grants cannot be collected from post office branches anymore ... (Citizen)

Sassa recipients are advised not to panic over the change of payment methods. The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has urged customers to use ...

Recipients of the R350 grant who chose to collect money at the post office are advised to visit www.srd.sassa.gov.za and change to the retail outlets. “People who used to collect their money at the post office do not necessarily need to panic they can go and transact at any of the particular retail outlets,” said Letsatsi. Clients are advised not to go to any post office branch to try to access the funds.

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R248bn set aside for Sassa beneficiaries, says Lindiwe Zulu (Jacaranda FM)

The Department of Social Development plans to spend R248 billion of its budget during the 2022/23 financial year South African Social Security Agency ...

The R44 billion allocated to the R350 grant will be distributed to 10.5 million South Africans every month. Zulu told MPs that more than 18 million people will benefit from the R248 billion allocated to Sassa. This include the R44 billion that has been allocated to pay for the extension of the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant.

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Sassa SRD grant: R44 billion allocated but gov can still only assist ... (Citizen)

Minister Lindiwe Zulu tabled the department's budget vote on Friday, which included an update on the Sassa SRD grant.

“Sassa is unable to process any applications for the R350 relief grant for April until the work to provide the legal framework for the grant is completed.” Since then, more than 8.1 million South Africans applied for the grant. Sassa suspended the R350 SRD grant in April while government amended regulations to shift the grant from the Disaster Management Act to the Social Assistance Act.

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