The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has recorded just under 12 million applicants for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in August.
This follows the publishing of amended regulations by the Department of Social Development that included the increasing of the income threshold for the means test from R350 to R625.
Changes were made to regulations after a low number of approved applications for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress caused concern for both the Department of Social Development and Sassa. “Sassa welcomes this new development, and the agency is hopeful that a greater number of qualifying applicants will now have access to this grant.”
“We are still having challenges with some payments wherein some applicants have not provided us with their banking details. We encourage all applicants to provide us with their correct bank details so that we can timeously facilitate their grant payments,” said Social Development minister Lindiwe Zulu.
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