South African pensioners demand a R5,000 monthly grant as rising costs render the current R2,400 insufficient for survival.

A Free State grant recipient has stretched her SRD payment for years, but her greatest fear has nothing to do with groceries ...

The South African Social Security Agency will pay its COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant payments in the last week of August.

SASSA needs taxpayers to survive. But could low wages and high unemployment put pensioners and other grant beneficiaries at ...

SASSA has confirmed its September 2026 payment schedule. Here are the important dates you need to know, along with the latest grant amounts.

The affordability of the South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa) R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, ...

South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) beneficiaries whose Social Relief of Distress (SRD) applications have been approved can expect to receive their R370 payments during the final week of July ...

The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) will introduce mandatory biometric enrolment for beneficiaries at its offices from 1 September. Until now, the system has only applied to applicants ...

EFF leader Julius Malema realises that SASSA Grants are the quickest way into voters’ hearts. Here’s what he’s promising ...

Payments for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) R370 grant will be processed in batches later in the month. RELATED: 2026 Budget: Social grants increased as SASSA stamps out fraud SASSA urged ...

National Treasury could withhold funds to the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) if it finds that conditions attached to its budget allocation are not being met. SASSA CEO Themba Matlou on ...

The Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant was introduced during the Covid pandemic to assist people in dire need. About nine ...