Not only are Easter 2026 SASSA Children’s Grants less than many had hoped, but there is still no official payment schedule ...
There is deafening silence from agency about SASSA Old-Age Grants over Easter 2026 and when recipients will be paid ...
With less than three weeks until millions of beneficiaries would usually collect their money, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has yet to formally confirm social grant payment dates ...
The Institute for Economic Justice says 75% of reported fraud cases have involved government employees, contractors or ...
SASSA focuses on vetting beneficiaries, but social grant fraud has mostly involved officials, contractors and government ...
Cape Town - In April alone, the South African Social Services Agency (Sassa) received more than 23 000 disputes following possible unlawful deductions from social benefit grants. The agency briefed ...
Social grants remain the single-largest item in South Africa’s social development ledger, a quiet but powerful line in the Budget that keeps millions of households afloat. Over the next three years, ...
Long queues form outside SASSA's branch in KwaMashu, Durban, almost daily. Many beneficiaries are turned away and have to make two or three trips before being assisted. GroundUp visited the office at ...
SASSA says its intensified social grant review process is saving the government about R44m a month, amounting to about R0.5b annually. The savings form part of a broader effort to tighten controls and ...
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) says it has stepped up its social grant review programme as part of a broader push to tighten compliance under stricter National Treasury conditions.