R350 Grant Applicants Urged To Submit Banking Details

Now that applications have opened for the Special Relief of Distress grant, applicants are now being urged to submit their banking details. SASSA had this amongst other details to say about the new round of R350 grants.

If you’re one of the many individuals applying to benefit from the R350 grant, you should make sure to submit your banking details when you apply.

Applicants are urged to select the bank option for receiving payments if they have bank accounts available as it makes payment easier and safer.

SASSA is also urging applicants to make sure the banking details, cellphone numbers and ID numbers being submitted are correct and belong to the one who’s name is on the application.

Paseka Letsatsi, Spokesperson for SASSA, said that applicants are being urged to submit banking details so that long queues at Post Offices can be avoided:

The second one, which we want to appeal to the people who are going to make applications for the R350, is to please give us their banking details because they do not necessarily have to flock to the Post Office.

If you do not have a bank account, you will then be able to fetch your grant money from a Post Office or a Bank Mobile Money Transfers (cash send).

SASSA is said to be working closely with the Post Office and they are busy working on plans to make sure that when payments begin, they have other ways in place for beneficiaries to collect their R350 grant payments.

The first R350 grant payments will commence in the last week of August. Payments will be made from August until March 2022.

Additional pay points and improve systems are going to be in place because we are likely to see bigger queues. With the previous round of SRD grants seeing 6 million people approved, this second time around will only be even bigger.