sassa cellphone banking 2023-2024

sassa cellphone banking 2023-2024

More than 11.2 million people have applied for the special Covid-19 R350 Social Relief of Distress grant since the beginning of August.

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has requested applicants’ banking information in order to process R350 payouts more swiftly.

How to Change Your Banking Data

Please follow the instructions listed below if you are an SASSA SRD R350 Grant-approved beneficiary and want to update your banking details.

• Visit the SASSA website https://srd.sassa.gov.za/

• Find the ‘How do I change my banking details

• Insert your ID number

• To the cell phone number you gave when submitting the application, an SMS containing a secure link will be delivered.

• Visit the link provided in the SMS.

• Choose the entry for bank account details. Enter your banking details (It must be your personal bank account).

SASSA will not pay your grant into a cell phone registered to another person.

If beneficiaries do not submit banking information, they must pick up their awards at the post office. The Post Office does not provide SRD R350 grants on days when disability, old age, and other social benefits are distributed.

Sassa has outlined three options for changing your information:

CHANGE IT ON THE WEBSITE

Visit the Sassa website here or the SRD portal here.

GIVE THEM A CALL

Applicants should dial 0800 60 10 11 to reach Sassa’s toll-free call center.

SEND AN EMAIL

Not coming right? Email grantenquiries@sassa.gov.za

SOCIAL GRANTS

• Care Dependency Grant

• Child Support Grant

• Disability Grant

• Foster Child Grant

• Grant-In-Aid

• Older Persons Grant

• Social Relief of Distress

• War Veterans Grant

RELATED LINKS

• Sassa Online Application Grant

• sassa Declaration form

• sassa Consent form

• Sassa Online Application Grant

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• Sassa Application Links

For more info on Sassa Online Application click here