SASSA: Know your March grant payment date

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has just announced March’s grant payment dates.

Older Persons (Pensioners) Grants, Disability Grants, and Children’s (Childcare) and Foster Grants are some of the agency’s responsibilities. It’s your right to ask for social assistance – and government’s responsibility.

Do you know your grant payment date?

Grant dates are important, and it can save you time to know YOUR next payment date.

Here’s what grant recipients can expect.

SASSA: Know your March grant payment date

The first social grant paying is the Older Persons (Pensioners) Grant on 5 March, 2024. Retirement-age South Africans may apply for this grant, which is due each month to provide social aid.

Grants can be collected at Boxer Superstores, PnP, Spar, or regional offices.

Know your grant payment date. It’s important for everyone who gets a social grant.

SASSA: March 2024 grant payment dates

The Older Persons (Pensioners) Grant pays on 5 March, 2024.

Disability Grants will pay on 6 March, 2024. Disability grants assist disabled South Africans with a monthly stipend income – and all citizens may apply.

Childcare (Children’s) and Foster Grants pay on 7 March, 2024. Expect other approved grants on the same date.

More about SASSA

The South African Social Security Agency started in April 2005. Social grants were part of other departments before this.

The Department of Social Development (DSD) oversees operations, while the Social Security Agency delivers payments.

Any citizen who needs social help is allowed to contact the social agency. It’s your right, says the social security agency.

Contact the grant agency

Need to know something about your social grant?

The hotline can answer any questions you might have about your grant. Emails can also go to GrantsEnquiries@sassa.gov.za.

Contact the grant agency’s National Hotline at +27 80 060 1011.

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