sassa money 2023

Permanent grant beneficiaries must make other arrangements to collect their funds, according to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa). This is due to a system fault at pay locations that prevents grants from being paid out.

Sassa distributes about 18 million permanent social grants each month. These long-term awards include the Care Dependency Grant, the Older Persons Grant, the Disability Grant, the Child Support Grant, the Foster Care Grant, the Grant in Aid, and the Grant for Foster Care.

Permanent grants are given out during the first week of each month. The South African Post Office (SAPO) is where many receivers of these subsidies pick them up.

However, they won’t be able to pick up their awards at a Post Office this week due to Sapo’s system troubles.

According to the organization, Sassa gold card members can withdraw money from ATMs and places of business. The retail establishments include Shoprite, Checkers, Usave, Pick n Pay, and Boxer.

Sassa grant recipients are urged to pick up money at shops and ATMs because of system concerns at Post Office locations today.
According to the agency, Sassa Grant recipients can use their Sassa cards to make purchases anywhere that accepts bank cards because the SASSA gold cards function fully within the national payments system like any other bank card.

The Post Bank has apologized for the inconvenience that the technological issues are causing to all recipients of social handouts and will let everyone know when the issues have been resolved.

Millions of South Africans receive social handouts from the government, which they use to pay for monthly expenses on necessities like goods and services. These grant recipients might not be able to get their funding as normal, though.

According to Sassa spokesperson Paseka Letsatsi, the issues causing the system glitches have already been identified. However, they will have a meeting with the management team on Friday to decide when to start paying out grants.

Letsatsi added that Sassa would go above and above to ensure that grant recipients could receive their funds. This is due to the fact that it would be unreasonable to expect them to survive without this financial support for the entire weekend.

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