Social Security Agency Sassa announced on Friday that measures have been put in place to expedite temporary disability grant re-applications.
According to reports, around 200,000 disability grant beneficiaries will not receive their grant payments this month since they lapsed at the end of December
The temporary disability grant, which provides financial assistance to over 200,000 South Africans who are unable to work, due to injury or illness, for between six and 12 months, is subject to a medical review.
Due to the hard lockdown implemented in March 2020, and the associated restrictions on personal movement, a ten-month extension was granted before medical reviews would be required again.
Now that extension is over.
“At the end of December 2020, Sassa suspended a total of 210,778 disability grants nationally, as the extended period for which they were awarded had expired,” the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) said in a statement this week.
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