The Social Security Agency of South Africa (Sassa) has released the dates for grant payments for beneficiaries during the festive season. The Citizen reported on the latest confirmed dates for the festive period on 12 November 2024.
The publication also further stated that Sassa clarified that beneficiaries will be receiving their usual amounts. No bonuses for the end of the year have been added to the December payments. So here are the dates for December 2024 and January 2025.
SASSA GRANT PAYMENT DATES FOR DECEMBER AND JANUARY
Sassa shared on their website some of the dates for the upcoming grant payments. These are all the dates below.
DECEMBER
For December the Sassa grant payments will start from 3 December 2024. As usual, the first beneficiaries who will receive payments are the elderly, followed by payments for disability grant and then the children’s grant.
Older persons grant: Wednesday, 3 December 2024
For this grant , payment amounts are according to age. The first is the older persons grant which pays R2 190, and second is the older persons (75 years and older), paying R 2 210.
Disability grant: Thursday, 4 December 2024
Under the disability grant, the War Veterans Grant is also included. The disability grant amount is R2 190 and for the war veterans payment is R2 210.
Children’s grant: Friday, 5 December 2024
Included under the children’s grant are the Child Support, Care Dependency, Foster Care and Child Support (Top-Up) grants. Child Support is R530 with the Top-Up grant being R530 + 250. Care Dependency beneficiaries receive R2 190, with Foster Care being R1 180.
JANUARY
These are the January 2025 dates:
- Older persons grant: Friday, 3 January 2025
- Disability grant: Monday, 6 January 2025
- Children’s grant: Tuesday, 7 January 2025
WILL THE GOLD CARDS STILL WORK AFTER END OF DECEMBER?
There has been quite a lot of confusion over the Sassa gold cards, which were set to expire on 31 December 2024. According to a report by GroundUp on 8 November 2024, Postbank confirmed that beneficiaries can continue to use their gold cards after the end of December this year. Bongani Diako, spokesperson of Postbank, explained:
“Gold Card beneficiaries in areas where we have not yet started issuing Black Cards need not be concerned as we will be taking the cards to where they live in every part of the country. Their Gold Cards will continue to work until we issue them with new Black Cards.”
Diako further stated that beneficiaries “must ignore any conflicting information,” including being advised to change their payment method for the grants.
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