The South African Social Security Agency, Sassa, said it had received about five million applications for the government's special R350 Covid-19 grant for the unemployed. | Day56ofLockdown
The South African Social Security Agency has received about five million applications for the R350 special Covid-19 grant.
He said the department had used a batch of 75 000 applications during their trial run. In that batch, 39 000 applications which were verified through SARS were found to be people drawing salaries as at April. Sassa CEO Busisiwe Memela-Khambula told MPs that there had been delays to pay the grants due to verification of the applicants. She said they needed to ascertain if they were not receiving other social grants and UIF benefits.
Memela-Khambula said they planned to pay out 300 000 continuously every two days after verification of applications.
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