R350 grant

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.

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.

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.

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.