The claims circulating online suggest that Sassa updated its rules to allow foreign nationals to receive SRD grant payments ...

SASSA has released payment dates for September 2025 grants and the August SRD cycle, urging beneficiaries to protect their money and resolve any payment issues promptly. Approved SASSA SRD Grant ...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) SRD grant status determines whether beneficiaries receive payments each month. Therefore, recipients need to know what to do next after receiving each ...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has said that no fraudulent application will pass its scrutiny, now urging all applicants for COVID-19 SRD grants to use the cell phone numbers ...

Sassa reminds SRD grant applicants to use cellphone numbers registered in their own names to prevent payment delays. File image. Sassa urges all SRD grant applicants to use cellphone numbers ...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) says security measures in the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) system have been improved to protect the information of grant recipients and ...

“All applicants and beneficiaries must be aware that using your number will assist to monitor, check the progress of the application and receive notifications from the agency that might need the ...

SASSA has released the January 2026 payment schedule for social grants, emphasising the need for beneficiaries to verify their biometric details to prevent fraud and ensure accurate payments.

The agency has identified a host of shortcomings in its SRD application system, most of which it says it’s now been able to fix. A South African Social Security Agency office in Pretoria. Picture: ...

Treasury has added new conditions to improve the monitoring of grants SASSA expects to save more than R341-million in the next financial year after about 35,000 grants were ended following recent ...

The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) expects to save more than R341-million in the next financial year after thousands of social grants were ended following recent eligibility reviews. On ...

Two first year computer science students at Stellenbosch University claim to have discovered massive flaws in SASSA’s Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system. When looking at the system they saw ...