Of the 91,000 people who had applied on the WhatsApp line for the Covid-19 unemployment grant, 11,000 were found to be recipients of other social grants and were disqualified, said Memela.
Only those who are unemployed and do not already receive a government grant qualify for the Covid-19 social relief grant.The first round of applications for the Covid-19 social relief grant of R350 a month for the unemployed has seen tens of thousands who do not qualify making applications.
This has prompted the SA Social Security Agency to clarify the category of people who do qualify for the grant. Sassa CEO Totsie Memela said on Monday that only people who were unemployed and not benefiting from any other government grant were eligible. Of the 250,000 who applied via e-mail, half were flagged and removed as they already received social grants.
From midday on Monday, Sassa launched a new application system to ensure that only those eligible would receive assistance and to stop chancers from defrauding the system.Must not be a recipient of other social grants, including old age, child support or disability grants;Recipients of NSFAS funding do not qualify; andMemela said those who qualify must be able to produce their SA identity document details in full as well as their gender and disability, if any.
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