sassa in full 2024-2025

You may be eligible for additional subsidies to pay for a full-time caregiver if you live on welfare but are unable to support yourself.

How will I know if I am eligible?
There is a need:

Persons already receiving disability benefits, military benefits, and old-age benefits
If you are unable to care for yourself due to a physical or mental disability and require full-time care
Not cared for in a facility that receives government subsidies for your care or accommodation.

How much will you get?

What are the main features of SASSA?

The agency’s goal is to make sure that all social security services for people who are vulnerable or poor are provided within the legal and constitutional framework.

Our Mandate

The agency’s mission is to ensure the provision of comprehensive social security services for vulnerability and poverty within the constitutional and legislative framework.

Legislative Mandate for SASSA
Social Assistance Act, 2004

This law provides the national legal framework for the provision of various types of social benefits, emergency social assistance, the provision of social assistance benefits by state agencies, and the establishment of social security inspectors.

South African Social Security Agency Act, 2004

This Act provides for the establishment of the South African Social Security Administration as a Schedule 3A public authority within the meaning of the PFMA. The primary purpose of this law is to provide effective administration, administration, and disbursement of social assistance and services through the establishment of the South African Social Security Administration. President, he signed into law on May 28, 2004.

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