Bulelwa Hoala

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced the social grant payment dates for February 2025.
According to their post on social media, the older person’s grants will be paid from Tuesday, 04 February 2025.
The disability grants will be paid from Wednesday, 05 February 2025.
Both of the above include any grants linked to the accounts.
Meanwhile, the children’s grants will be paid from Thursday, 06 February 2025.
SASSA has urged the public not to rush to withdraw money as it will remain in the account.
“There is no need to rush to withdraw cash on the first day. Once the money is in the account, it will remain there until it is needed,” SASSA said on X.
Social grant payment dates for February 2025@The_DSD @nda_rsa @GovernmentZA #SASSACARES#SocialGrantPayments pic.twitter.com/7zSe2wW9QZ
— SASSA (@OfficialSASSA) January 30, 2025
On Thursday the 16th of January, the Prudential Authority (PA) of the South African Reserve Bank filed a provisional liquidation application against Ithala SOC Limited in the Pietermaritzburg High Court resulting in the suspension of operations.
Over 257 000 depositors’ accounts were frozen in the process with 65 000 of them being beneficiaries of SASSA’s social assistance.
SASSA recently announced that it has teamed up with FNB to pay the social grants of beneficiaries who are clients of Ithala bank.
This means all SASSA beneficiaries who banked with Ithala will receive provisional accounts with FNB until they can provide SASSA with details of their chosen banks.
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