MOMS DID NOT RECEIVE CHILD GRANT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST
Many mothers
are stressed as many thousands of them have not yet received their child social
grant.
Germiston
News has received many calls, emails and messages of mothers complaining that
their child grant for the month of August.
SASSA child’s
grant payment always a problem for so many mothers in Germiston and part of
East Rand and why this system cannot be fixed once and for all to give us peace
of mind.
I do not have
a job and I depend on this money to feed my baby but for the last 3 months it
has been tough and rough for me and my child, now I have to go beg people to
give me a bare R500 so I can make my baby something to eat on a daily basis.
Another
mother said: I received my money from SASSA but not in full.
Where is the
rest of the money due to me?
It is a pit I
tried all everything to get this mother sorted but no chance and my question is
why it has to be so difficult to get your child’s grant money without so much
stress.
Germiston
News team tried to reach out to SASSA officials to give clarity of the issue
and nobody seem to care to come back to us and give us some light on the
matter.
Emails, phone
calls and many of our request has landed to dead computers and phone inbox.
Nobody care?
Very sad situation for women’s month and to our struggling mothers.
How
much money does SASSA has for 2024/2025 Financial year?
Ms Nokuzola Tolashe who is the
current minister of Social Development said on her budget speech:
"2024/25 financial year, our budget allocation is R275
billion. Of this amount, R266 billion is for the payment of 28 million social
grants"
13,2 million South African are the recipients of the Child Support Grant.
Currently, social grants are a major source of
income support for 45% of the South African population.
The
results of the 2022 census are further proof that our investment in the social
assistance programme is working because it has lifted millions of our people
out of poverty. This includes 13,2 million recipients of the Child Support
Grant and over 4 million of adults receiving the Old Age Grant.
That is
why we will continue working even harder in the coming months and years, with
the cooperation of this house, to overcome poverty and to bring Madiba’s words
into reality.
Since 2012, SASSA has progressively modernized
the social grants payment space by ensuring that every social grant beneficiary
has access to a bank account.
From
2018, we’ve gradually phased out cash pay points reducing their number from
approximately 10,000 in 2018 to the last 500, which were closed toward the end
of the previous financial year.
The
shift away from high-risk payment instruments like cash, aims to enhance
financial inclusion for social grant beneficiaries within the National Payment
System—the primary payment system used by everyone in South Africa.