Will SASSA pay double 2023-2024

Sassa regularly delays the payment of R350 grant funds. Recipients may worry if they would receive their monthly grant payments all at once, possibly for more than a month, as a result of these delays, which were brought on by a payment backlog in earlier months.

Although the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) continues to disperse Special Relief of Distress (SRD) award payments to qualified applicants and beneficiaries, many of the agency’s beneficiaries have encountered payment delays. This begs the question of whether Sassa will handle any outstanding award payments in the same amount of time.

Recipients of the SRD award have been advised by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) that payments would start to arrive in the middle of June 2022. They had been waiting for their Sassa-due R350 for about three months prior to this.

As soon as the banks of all impacted SRD grant applicants are verified, Sassa announced that they will move through with the elimination of unpaid sums from the last award cycle.

But, it is also equally important for impacted beneficiaries to be aware that Sassa stated they won’t make back-to-back payments for the earlier month, particularly for those before April of the current. The grant money will still be given to them, but not all at once.

The payments will be made monthly rather than all at once. More than one payment may be made in a month, but no one will get a double payment in amount.

Will SASSA pay double 2023-2024

Sassa noted that until the backlog is addressed, they will execute a number of R350 award payments each month. After the excess is paid, they will continue to make one SRD reward installment for each beneficiary each month.

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