March 2024 SASSA grants bring a 5% increase in benefits to R510. SASSA has released payment dates for various grant categories, including old age, disability, and children’s grants.
Here’s a reminder of when you can collect your social grants for MARCH 2024.
REMINDER: SASSA SOCIAL GRANTS PAYMENT DATES FOR MARCH
This comes after the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) released the payment schedule for the 2023/24 financial year.
The first week of the month is reserved for elderly, child, and disability grant payments.
After that, it is Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant recipients, and all other grants are paid out. All other beneficiaries can still collect at South African Post Office branches except for the SRD recipients.
HERE ARE THE NEW SASSA SOCIAL GRANTS PAYMENT DATES
Older Persons or Pensioners Grants: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
Disability Grants: Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Children’s and all other Grants: Thursday, 7 March 2024
State grant recipients using gold cards provided by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) are advised to continue using these for transactions until further notice. This follows an announcement by Postbank last week.
Initially card holders were advised to renew their cards before 31 December. The expiry date no longer applies, and the cards are valid following the latest development. This means grant beneficiaries can continue using these gold cards to withdraw money.
WILL YOUR SASSA CARDS EXPIRE?
“This important development means that millions of social grant beneficiaries do not have to change their Sassa gold cards to the cards of the other banks.
“The extension of the Sassa gold cards’ validity ensures continuity for beneficiaries, and they do not have to endure the inconvenience and expenses of changing their gold cards to other payment methods that are often costly,” said Dr Bongani Diako, Postbank spokesperson.
