R350 Grant Applications Will Open This Month, Minister Confirms
Government is said to be announcing the exact dates for when Special Relief of Distress grant applications will open today. The Social Development Minister confirmed that it will open this month and gave further details on the reinstatement of the grant.
SASSA is set to announce further details on the reinstatement of the grant today, 4 August. They will explain the processes people will have to follow should they want to benefit from the grant.
Details on when Special Relief of Distress (SRD) grant applications will open will be soon be given, with the Minister of Social Development, which is in charge of SASSA, Lindiwe Zulu, saying that it will open this month in August.
Zulu further said:
Once applications start then we will process the applications. Nothing new is going to happen when it comes to the application processes.
Beneficiaries of the previous round of the R350 grant have also been encouraged to visit a post office near them to collect money owed to them by SASSA.
“If you still have R350 Covid relief money owed to you, you can visit your post office any day of the week. We have suspended the system working with ID numbers for the time being.” the Post Office said in a tweet.
However, beneficiaries will first need to receive a text message from SASSA before collecting the grant payments owed to them.
Caregivers will now also be included in the grant and will receive R350 in addition to a grant they already receive.
R27 billion is being geared towards this grant.
