Many of the agency’s beneficiaries have experienced payment delays as the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) continues to distribute Special Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments to eligible applicants and beneficiaries. This raises the question of whether those grant payments that are still pending will be processed by Sassa within the same time frame.

The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has informed recipients of the SRD grant that they will begin receiving payments in the middle of June 2022. Prior to this, they had been waiting almost three months for their Sassa-due R350.

Sassa stated that they will proceed with the removal of unpaid balances from the previous grant cycle as soon as the bank details of all affected SRD grant applicants are confirmed.

Nonetheless, it is additionally similarly as significant for influenced recipients to take note that Sassa expressed that they won’t make twofold installments for the earlier month, especially those before April of the current. They will still get the money from the grant, just not all at once.

The payments will not be done together but will be done month by month. More than one payment may be made in a month, but no one will receive a double payment in amount.

Sassa added that they will process several R350 grant payments per month until the backlog is cleared. They will keep making one SRD award installment for every recipient every month after the excess has been cleared.