Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
“If you come here after 7h30, you probably won’t get helped”: the struggle to get into a SASSA office
Social grant beneficiaries get up before dawn or sleep outside the office in Eerste River
News | 8 August 2024
Beneficiaries are still battling with SASSA’s new biometric system
Pilot programme rolled out to help recipients of the Social Relief of Distress grant to verify their identity
News | 30 July 2024
SASSA’s fraud management system is fraught with danger
It is irrational to expect people who can’t afford food to have a smartphone and internet access
By Kelle Howson, Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker, Vayda Megannon and General Alfred Moyo
Opinion | 30 July 2024
Churches join call for basic income grant
Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
News | 26 July 2024
New app to help Western Cape social workers
Plan is to slash time spent on paperwork
News | 25 July 2024
Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with SASSA’s new verification process
Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid
News | 26 June 2024
SASSA’s new ID verification process sparks alarm
Biometric identification has been introduced to fight fraud, says agency
News | 19 June 2024
Thousands of children with disabilities are not receiving the Care Dependency Grant
And the R2,180 monthly amount is too little to cover the costs of caring for a child with disabilities
By Daniel Steyn
News | 23 May 2024
Universal Basic Income Grant: What should a payment system look like?
South Africa can learn from Brazil
Abby May, Zen Mathe and Michael Marchant for Open Secrets
Analysis | 13 May 2024