Beneficiaries gathered outside the Sassa office in downtown Johannesburg, expressing dissatisfaction with the long waiting times and lack of assistance. Frusrated crowd outside the Sassa office in ...

Among the accused are eight Sassa employees, alleged to have siphoned off millions meant for social grant beneficiaries. Magistrate Maggie van der Merwe rescheduled their bail hearing to 10 June ...

Sassa has announced the introduction of a mandatory biometric enrolment and identity verification process for clients who use alternative forms of identification other than the standard 13-digit ...

Millions of South Africans relying on the R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant can check their upcoming payment dates with just a few clicks, thanks to SASSA’s online status check system.

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has moved to reassure pensioners after false claims were posted on various social media platforms. It says the old age grant will not be stopped in ...

On Thursday, beneficiaries came out in numbers to try to meet the deadline for swopping their old Sassa gold cards to the new Postbank black cards Postbank has started introducing a new Black Card ...

On Wednesday, Sassa presented its audit action plan to Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Social Development, following a financially unqualified opinion by the Auditor-General for 2023/24. Sassa ...

DESPITE today’s deadline for South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) gold cards to be swapped to black Postbank cards. The SASSA gold cards will be deactivated from today, But social grants ...

Sassa Gurl voiced her support for senatorial candidate Heidi Mendoza in the May 2025 mid-term elections, underscoring the latter’s fight against “thieves” in the government. The content ...

Postbank and SASSA have held numerous briefings in recent weeks to update the public on the migration process, which began in September 2024. Postbank has started introducing a new Black Card ...

More than 170 000 grant recipients have not transitioned to the Postbank black card. Sassa briefed the Western Cape legislature's social development standing committee on the issuing of black cards on ...