sassa 620 2024-2025

sassa 620 2024-2025

Lindiwe Zulu, the minister of social development, has suggested increasing the income requirement for SRD applicants from R350 to R624. The general public has until July 29 to offer comments.

Since the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) approved her R350 grant applications a few months ago, Ntombi Kwaza, 34, has not received payment. For Kwaza and thousands of other people like her, the Department of Social Development has proposed raising the monthly income requirement for Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants from R350 to R624.

Kwaza, who is from Klerksdorp in the province of the North West, claims that SASSA “detected a source of income” when she applied for the SRD grant in August 2021 and November 2021. She filed an appeal against this decision, and in May of this year, she learned that all four months had been approved.

Despite SASSA’s announcement that payments for accepted appeals from the previous year would be made in June, she is still waiting for these payments. “They are torturing us. When they said I got approved, I was so happy and even danced. Now I just feel like giving up,” she said.

Living with Kwaza is her boyfriend, three kids, two younger siblings who are still in high school, and her boyfriend. She hasn’t had a job for four years. For her ten-year-old and seven-month-old children, she depends on the R480 in child support grants.