distress grant application 2023-2024

A brief type of aid known as social relief of distress may be available to people who are in such severe financial difficulty that they are unable to meet the most basic necessities of themselves or their family.

Applicants for social alleviation of distress must be South African citizens or residents who meet one or more of the criteria below and have limited means.

The applicant expects to be paid for a social benefit that has been approved.
The applicant has been found medically unfit to perform compensatory work for less than six months.
Within three months of the breadwinner’s passing, the application is submitted.
There is evidence that attempts to get in touch with a parent, child, or spouse who is required by law to pay maintenance have been unsuccessful.
The principal breadwinner of the family has been admitted to an institution that receives state money (prison, psychiatric hospital, state home for older persons, treatment center for substance abuse, or child and youth care center).
The Disaster Management Act or the Fund Raising Act, both of which were passed in 1978, both of which define a disaster, have had an impact on the application.
The person is not receiving assistance from any other entity or person.
Applying for social alleviation of distress will save you from unnecessary misery.

Period of Social Relief of Distress (New Policy)

For a maximum of three months, Social Relief of Distress is distributed once every month. A further three-month extension may be given in rare cases.

Keep in mind that someone who has received a social grant is not qualified to receive help for social distress.

Anyone who gets grants and social assistance is required to pay back the value of the social aid. All upcoming social aid payments, including arrears, will be reduced by this sum.

However, if the beneficiary of the social grant also received relief for the disaster, the money won’t be reimbursed.

SOCIAL GRANTS