The honest answer is that nobody knows. The SASSA SRD grant is funded to 31 March 2027. Beyond that date nothing has been announced, and anyone telling you the grant is guaranteed until 2028 is guessing. In the 2025 budget speech, we also saw the increase of other SASSA grants like the Older Persons grant,…
South Africa has over 64 million people and twelve official languages. English is only one of them, so for millions of people it is a second or third language. The other eleven are: Afrikaans, Zulu, Swazi, Ndebele, South African Sign Language, Tswana, Xhosa, Pedi, Sotho, Venda, and Tsonga. However, when it comes to the SASSA…
Living with disabilities is challenging, and it puts hurdles to performing different tasks. If I talk specifically about SASSA services, then using them while experiencing physical disabilities becomes harder. Let’s suppose, if you are blind and you need to perform a SASSA status check, you can not do it easily by using our SRD status…
SASSA deals with fraudulent applications and scammers every day. Many people try to deceive the SASSA’s security system to bypass the verification and get the grant payment. However, SASSA has been dealing with such types of people since 2005. The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has learnt so much from these deceivers. That is…
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is a department that deals with identity documents of South Africans. DHA issues ID cards, passports, and special permits to those who are legally living in South Africa. Moreover, other documents like birth certificates, death certificates, or immigration related documents also come under the DHA. Not only that, the…
You must have come here after the rejection of your SRD grant, right? Well, because you must have heard that you can appeal through the Department of Social Development (DSD). That is correct. The appeal is decided by the Independent Tribunal for Social Assistance Appeals (ITSAA), which sits under DSD and not under SASSA. Appeal…
A wasted trip to a SASSA office costs you a morning and a taxi fare. Offices keep standard hours, they close on public holidays, and they get very busy around month-end. Here is the schedule, and the days worth avoiding. I have personally collected all the office timings by visiting each office. It took me…
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is a government agency responsible for distributing social grants across South Africa. Established in 2005, SASSA aims to provide financial support to eligible citizens, including the elderly, people with disabilities, and vulnerable families. The agency was created to standardize the social grant system, which was previously managed by…
If you need to contact SASSA related to any of the following matters, then you are on the right page. This is a page where you can find out all the SASSA contact information and office addresses in South Africa. You can use any of the available contact options, like helpline, email, or fax, to…
The number SASSA publishes for WhatsApp is 082 601 0111. Save that one. If you have seen 0600 123 456 on other sites, that is the old GovChat line. GovChat was a private company that ran a SASSA service on WhatsApp for a few years. That service no longer handles SRD, so messages to it…
