SASSA has announced SRD grant payment dates for January 2026, including who qualifies and what to check before payments.

Sassa has confirmed to The Citizen the scheduled payment dates of the SRD grant for March. Get the details here. The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has released its March payment date ...

The investigation into fraud in Sassa’s SRD grant application system has failed to answer critical questions. A month ago Stellenbosch University students Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras explained to ...

The South African government is investigating alleged “vulnerabilities” in the application processes and IT systems used by South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) for the payment of social ...

Civil society organisations including the Black Sash, #PayTheGrants, the Social Policy Initiative and the Institute for Economic Justice are calling for urgent clarification from the Department of ...

The SRD grant was introduced during the Covid pandemic to assist people in dire need. About nine-million of these R370 grants are paid out monthly now. It is potentially the basis for a universal ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to outline a concrete plan to address the various issues surrounding the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) has ...

SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system fails to answer crucial questions, writes Nathan Geffen. The investigation into fraud in SASSA's SRD grant application system has failed to answer ...

The investigation into fraud in SASSA’s SRD grant application system has failed to answer critical questions. A month ago, Stellenbosch University students Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras told Parliament ...