Sassa launches online social grants portal
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) says social grant applicants will be able to apply for certain social grants online from Monday.
Sassa has launched an online portal for social grant applicants.
The pilot project will at this stage cover the child support, older persons, and foster child grants.
“This should be a relief to grant applicants as it will save them the inconvenience of standing in queues at Sassa offices in order to apply for their grants,” the agency said in a statement on Monday.
"The added advantage is that the convenience of online applications eliminates the risk of being infected with Covid-19 because there will be no need to gather at public places to apply. This remote self-service will be possible on both a computer and a mobile phone.”
Sassa says the turnaround time is 10 days, provided the applicant supplies all the stipulated documents such as identity documents of applicant and spouse as well as banking details among others.
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