Sassa says it hopes to start paying grants again in mid-June. The 10.6 million people who applied to receive the new round of the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant from 1 April have not yet received payments for April and May. The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) has said that it hopes to begin payments in mid-June after other social grants have been paid. In a presentation to Parliament last week, the department and Sassa said:"To enable the means testing, Sassa needed to procure the services of banks. We were shocked to discover over the last few days that not a single SRD grant has been paid in April or May 2022.

Source: News 24 June 09, 2022 06:45 UTC