sassa relief grant online application 2024-2025
sassa relief grant online application 2024-2025
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Social relief of distress is a temporary provision of assistance aimed for persons in such dire material need that they are unable to meet their own or their family’s most basic needs.
Social Relief of Distress is available to South African citizens or permanent residents who meet one or more of the following requirements:
- 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 noted that a person who receives a social grant cannot also receive social distress support. Anyone who receives both social assistance and a grant must repay the social assistance value. This sum will be subtracted from all future social grant payments, including arrears. However, if the person receiving a social grant received disaster assistance, that amount will not be recovered.