distress grant 2024-2025
distress grant 2024-2025
You can find a summary of Sassa 2024-2025 on this page. Continue reading this page to the end.
People who are in such extreme financial need that they are unable to meet the most basic needs of themselves or their families are eligible for a brief form of aid known as social relief of distress.
Social Relief of Distress is available to South African citizens and permanent residents who meet one or more of the requirements below 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 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 extra three-month extension may be granted in rare situations.
- 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 return the social assistance’s value. This amount will be deducted from all upcoming social grant payments, including arrears. The money won’t be returned, though, if the social grant recipient also received aid for the disaster.