The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard arguments regarding the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant on Tuesday. The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) and advocacy group #PayTheGrants are ...

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Last year, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) provided some early festive cheer for beneficiaries of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant by processing payments before Christmas.

It is also feared that the social relief of distress (SRD) grant may be in the government’s cross-hairs. The withdrawal of the grant would bring annual savings of R36 billion. There were ...

Should a court order that the state has breached its constitutional obligation by not increasing the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to keep pace with annual inflation, it would have a knock ...

Two first-year Computer Science students from Stellenbosch University, Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai, have uncovered serious flaws in the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system run by the South ...

The students, Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras, found that their ID numbers were used to apply for the SRD grant, which led to a broader investigation into the fraudulent use of student IDs to access ...

IT students Veer Gosai (left) and Joel Cedras brief the Social Development committee about how they uncovered fraud in the SRD grant application system. Picture: Phando Jikelo/Parliament of RSA ...

Nearly three weeks after they were supposed to be paid, a number of Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beneficiaries who had their applications approved in October, are still waiting for their ...

People are not getting their R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants because they struggle to get SMS links for a biometric identity verification. SASSA says beneficiaries with smart card IDs ...

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