The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has been providing citizens with social grants on behalf of the Department of Social Development. There are many different grants that SASSA provides, you can keep reading to find out what they are.
Care Dependency Grant
This grant is a source of income support for caregivers who take care of children with severe mental or physical disabilities.
Applicants must meet the following requirements to qualify for the grant:
There is good news and bad news regarding social grants. Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, has announced that social grants will be increased. They will increase between 1.0% and 3.4%. But sadly, the social relief of distress grant is due to come to an end in April.
Tito Mboweni announced the following increases to social grants:
If you are struggling to contact SASSA and are wanting to find out information about your grants or wanting to have your questions answered, you can read further to find out the details you need.
To complete your SASSA applications, you need to sign a declaration and a consent form. To find out where you can get these documents, you can keep reading!
You need to sign the declaration and consent form so that SASSA has permission to share and validate your information with other organisations and financial institutions such as SARS and banks.
To view the declaration and consent form, you can click here.
President Ramaphosa has announced that the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant of R350 will be extended. SASSA released a statement elaborating on the details of the extension, including details such as that any approved applicants do not need to re-apply.
The grant was passed after many calls from people who rely on the grant since it has either been very hard or even impossible, to find work during the pandemic.
If you applied for SASSA's R350 a month grant and were rejected, there is an oppurtunity to appeal. If you have appealed, you can read here about how to check your status.
To read about how the president extended the SASSA grant, you can read here.
The Head of Department of the Gauteng Provincial Department of Human Settlements hereby invites admitted under-graduate students to apply for bursaries to undertake full-time studies in the 2021 academic year.
Gauteng Department of Human Settlements is offering limited number of bursaries.
NAACAM, supported by MerSETA, is offering bursaries to 15 University of Technology Students. All qualifying applicants must be 2nd or 3rd year students at a University of Technology, studying Mechanical, Electrical or Electronics Engineering.
African Housing Company (AFHCO) is holding a competition to give away a bursary worth R50 000. The R50 000 bursary will be paid directly to University of Johannesburg or Wits University.
Closing date: 12 March 2021 (Entries received after 17:00 will not be valid and will be excluded from the draw.)
