Almost six million Covid-19 grant applications have been paid out. Over 8.3 million applicants have been approved and over 5.6 million have since been paid by the month of September 2021.
She added that unemployed care-givers without the 13-digit bar coded South African identification documents, who receive child grants, can now apply for the Special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant.
Unemployed care givers with ID documents who have been approved for the Covid-19 SRD grant are reminded that they are paid through their gold Sassa payment cards. Over two thirds of appeals lodged have been finalised. As part of the process, Sassa sends these cases to the banking sector for validation, which may take time in some cases.
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