application for social relief grant 2024-2025
application for social relief grant 2024-2025
Basic details about Sassa 2024-2025 are provided on this page. Keep reading this page if you would like to.
A temporary assistance program called social relief of distress is intended for people who are in such dire need of material goods that they are unable to provide for the most basic needs of their families or themselves.
Social Relief of Distress is available to South African nationals or permanent residents who meet one or more of the following criteria and have insufficient resources:
- The applicant is expecting payment of a social grant that has been authorized.
- The applicant has been determined medically incapable to perform remunerative work for less than six months.
- The breadwinner has died, and the application is made within three months of his or her death.
- No maintenance is received from a parent, child, or spouse who is legally required to pay maintenance, and documentation that efforts to get maintenance have been futile is provided.
- The breadwinner of that person’s family has been admitted to a state-funded institution (prison, psychiatric hospital, state home for older persons, treatment center for substance abuse, or child and youth care center).
- The applicant has been affected by a disaster as defined by the Disaster Management Act or the Fund Raising Act, both of which were enacted in 1978.
No other organization or person is assisting the individual. - Refusing to apply for social relief of distress will result in an undue hardship.
Period of Social Relief of Distress (New Policy)
- For a maximum of three months, Social Relief of Distress is distributed once a month. An additional three-month extension may be granted in exceptional circumstances.
- Remember that a recipient of a social grant is not eligible for assistance with social distress. Anyone who receives both grants and social assistance must refund the value of the awards. This sum will be deducted from all future social assistance payments, including arrears. The money won’t be returned, though, if the social grant recipient also received relief for the tragedy.