I said it before, and I will say it again – SASSA is going through a lot of applications and many get falsely declined while others get falsely approved. Using different mechanisms with banks, Sars and the government system, SASSA was able to eliminate some the falsely declined, and have also corrected those who were falsely approved.
In the past few days, SASSA had declined thousands and thousands of applications that appeared to have a secondary source of income that’s been identified. With many complaints that SASSA has received, seems the matter has been reversed for many, moving from declined to approval.
The was processed for the month of August, while many others who were recently approved for August have not yet received paydays.
September is currently still pending, and we are headed to the ultimate month for the Covid-19
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