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Sassa status check

by Uneeb Khan
Sassa status check

What is Sassa?

Sassa stands for South African Social Security Agency. The SASSA is a national government agency that distributes social grants on behalf of the Department of Social Development. The Social Social Security Agency SASSA was created in April 2005 to help citizens throughout the country. The mission of the South Africa Agency is to administer social grant security services to only eligible children, pensions for older persons and people with disabilities, and unemployed persons. 

Sassa Grants:

Social assistance provides different types of grants that include:

  • Older person’s grant
  • Child support grant
  • Care dependency grant-
  • War veteran’s pension.
  • Foster child grant.
  • Disability grant
  • Social relief of distress

Social relief of distress Grant r350:

A temporary measure for the citizens of South Africa in dire need, in the form of parcels or vouchers because of the Covid-19 situation. The purpose of the Sassa r350 grant is to help people in the national disaster situation to prevent people from covid 19. Now, as for change, the r350 grant is for all those people who are unemployed and unable to fulfill their living. The requirement for the social relief of distress grant is as follows:

  • The applicant must be a South African citizen / permanent resident/asylum seeker or special permit holder in South Africa.
  • Must live in South Africa.
  • The applicant must be above 18 years of his life. You need to be over the age of 18.
  • The applicant is unemployed and does not get any help from any other institute.

How to Check Sassa Application Status

When an applicant submits an application form through the Sassa website, you can check the Status of your Sassa grant application at any time. To Check Sassa Application Status, you need to follow the following steps:

  1. Log in to the Sassa website.
  2. Click the button “Check Sassa Status,” which appears under the Grant Applications heading. This link will take you to the checking your Sassa Application status page.
  3. Enter “South African id number of the applicant” in your search results.
  4. And after this, enter your “phone number used to submit your application.”
  5. Click the Search button and review your search results.
  6. Review the Status of your application and payment dates for this month and previous months, with details.

Other Sassa Grant briefly Discussion

Older person’s grant-

Grant for people aged more than 65 can apply for a pension.

Child support grant

Child support grant is for those children who are under 18, and you, as a primary giver, have not had enough resources to give a standard of living for the children.

War veteran’s pension.

War veterans, as the name, suggests, that grant is for the citizens who fought in the Second World War or the Korean War. 

Foster child grant

This grant is for the foster parent of a child.

Disability grant Sassa

In order to apply for the grant in case of a permanent, severe disability and your age must be between 18 and 59 years.

In the past, all nine provincial governments were responsible for handling and administrating the south African social grants, but delivery is a serious social challenge for the government institutes., especially the delay in the approval and payments of grants handling is difficult to process. , There are possible chances of fraud and corruption in the system because of cybercriminals.

Conclusion:

So, the critical function of the Sassa agency is to administrate and regulate the process of social grant holders or beneficiaries: The processing steps contain the Sassa social grant applications submission, verification, and approval, as well as disbursement and payment of grants to eligible beneficiaries. Fraud prevention and detection is also the main goal in handling South Africa’s social welfare recipients. As the number of Sassa applicants has grown from 3.8 million in April 2001, the receipts number increased to 11 million in March 2006 and 17 million in 2017. Millions of South Africans received the temporary Special COVID-19 Sassa Social Relief of Distress grant from May 2020 up until now.

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