Grant top-ups were announced as part of government's plan to make sure that all South Africans who relied on the grants were provided for. All other grant recipients will get an extra R250 per month for the next six months. The supplementation of the grants raises the child social grant (paid to the caregivers of around 12.5 million children) to R740 per child in May 2020. See more of SASSA News on Facebook. I was watching #Newzroom405 live dstv where the National Economic Development and Labour Council responds to #SONA2021 on the R350 grant and TERS. Black Sash argued in its papers that the top-up was linked to the national state of disaster and could not be terminated unless the national state of disaster comes to an end or until the effects of it have been meaningfully dealt with. SASSA has confirmed that some of their temporary social grants will be extended beyond October, with the R350 payment 'under review'. Ramaphosa: Social grant beneficiaries to receive an increase Ramaphosa announced a relief package of R500 billion to ensure the recovery of areas affected by the current crisis facing the country. See more of SASSA News on Facebook. Black Sash took the matter to court on an urgent basis to stop SASSA from implementing the decision to terminate the top-up for caregivers. And also if the SRD will continue till 2021 as the calender for grant payouts ends in March 2021. SASSA discontinues R500 Covid-19 Caregiver Grant Top-up. Another day, another fake news story spread about SASSA. Musician/Band. The economy has been drastically opened since May. Create New Account. Log In. It's not easy when something that you are used to is taken away but we have to stop spreading lies and getting people's hopes up over nothing. After days of waiting in vain for the sassa srd R350 Grant, now there is light. 10 months ago. Child Support Grant (CSG) beneficiaries received an extra R300 … Interest. What i need to go and apply. This time, a social media paged which promised ‘special info’ concerning the agency is spreading a message which reads, “The R500 Caregiver grant has been added again. No new directives have been issued since then, making the decision to terminate the top-ups unlawful. E-commerce Website. SASSA’s role is to pay social grants, not to make policy. He also hopes the R350-a-month grant will be increased to R500… It is already costing about R6.8 billion to extend the COVID-19 social relief of distress grants by three months. And also if the SRD will continue till 2021 as the calender for grant payouts ends in March 2021. The ones … The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) says ‘top-ups’ on old-age, child support and foster grants that … Sassa has come forward to dismiss these claims as fake news. As SASSA has released the grant payout dates, We see that they will still be paid late, As they are now and a lot of people are confused if SASSA will still add R500 per parent for child's grant up until 2021 or not?. People who think the increase of sassa grants by R500 is a great idea are selfish. ... News. Sassa says it has stopped 6 000 payments with the figure substantially going down to 500 in the August payment cycle. “Beneficiaries of the caregiver grants are mostly women, the vast majority of whom are black and hail from impoverished communities, the decision to terminate the caregivers’ grant and continue the Social Relief of Distress grant also contravenes the right to equality for unfairly discriminating on the basis of sex and gender,” said Maart in the papers. Government House RDP. Musician/Band. Stock photo. The R500 social grant would cast the net wider for struggling citizens who desperately need support. Sassa 350 Relief Fund Status Check. thesouthafrican.com is a division of Blue Sky Publications Ltd. Reproduction without permission prohibited. On Sunday October 11, grant applicants started seeing approved on their dashboard after days of pending which left many devastated. Previous month, November 2020, care givers didn’t received their R500 top up. Sign Up. SASSA has confirmed that some of their temporary social grants will be extended beyond October, with the R350 payment 'under review'. The President announced that child support grant beneficiaries will receive an additional R300 at the end of April; and an extra R500 from June to October. Judge Makhubele also directed that only the parties and their legal representatives could attend the virtual hearing – excluding the media and the public. There won’t be any additional amounts given to you as caregiver nor added cent to the normal child support grant payment. There are different stories about child support grant top up circulating around. The R500.00 was added to assist unemployed parents or guardians during the difficult time of lockdown.