sassa relief grant application 2024-2025
sassa relief grant application 2024-2025
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Social relief of distress is a temporary offer of help designed for those in such grave material need that they are unable to meet the most basic necessities of themselves or their family.
South African citizens or permanent residents with insufficient means who meet one or more of the following requirements are eligible for Social Relief of Distress:
- 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)
Social Relief of Distress is given out once a month for a maximum of three months. In exceptional circumstances, an additional three-month extension may be granted.
It should be remembered that a person who receives a social grant cannot simultaneously obtain social distress assistance. Anyone who receives both social assistance and a grant must refund the value of the social assistance. This amount will be deducted from all future social grant payments, including arrears. However, if the person receiving a social grant got catastrophe aid, that sum will not be recovered.