Sassa status pending meaning explained by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa). After you have submitted your Sassa R350 grant application on the Social Relief of Distress Grant website at srd.sassa.gov.za, you may wish to perform a Sassa status check. However, when you check your Sassa SRD status, you may see ‘Sassa status pending’, pending means your application has not yet been approved, your details still need to be screened and verified first. Once approved, you will receive an SMS from SASSA requesting your banking details, then you will be paid. Here’s what you can do about that Sassa status pending.
Sassa Status Pending
Double check that the information you provided to SASSA is correct. Pending means your application has not yet been approved, your details still need to be screened and verified first. Once approved, you will receive an SMS from SASSA requesting your banking details, then you will be paid. Yes, there is no set payment date for the special COVID-19 SRD grant. Approved without a payday means: If your SRD grant is approved but no pay date is given because SASSA has not processed your R350 grant payment yet. SASSA has to process your payment before you are given a payment date for your SRD R350 grant. Once SASSA processes your payment, you’ll see your payment date when you check your SASSA R350 grant status.
About The Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD Grant)
The Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD Grant) is meant for South African Citizens, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Special Permit Holders who are between the ages of 18 and 60 years, who have insufficient means, who do not receive social grants on behalf of herself/ himself or who are not contributing to or eligible for UIF payment, and have no financial support from any other source.
The Sassa SRD grant is administered by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and run the R350 SRD grant smoothly. However there are instances when there are issues with Sassa SRD grants and beneficiaries are left wondering when they will get their Sassa payment.
How to Check Status For R350 Grant
Follow the below steps to check your Sassa Status Online:
- Go to https://srd.sassa.gov.za/sc19/status
- Enter ID number and your cellphone number
- Then click “Submit”
- You will be able to see the status of your SRD status for your application
Pending means your application has not yet been approved, your details still need to be screened and verified first. Once approved, you will receive an SMS from SASSA requesting your banking details, then you will be paid.
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What should you do when you have received the ‘Sassa status pending’ Sassa application status?
What to Do About ‘Sassa Status Pending’ R350 Grant Status
Should you be seeing a ‘Bank details pending’ as you do a SASSA R350 grant status check, this means that your application, or reapplication, has been received. However, you haven’t submitted bank details or preferences for how your R350 grant payment should be made.
The client should submit their banking details via the website. “Once approved, you will receive an SMS from SASSA requesting your banking details, then you will be paid.”
Should you see ‘Reapplication Pending‘ Sassa application status? You will then need to submit your Sassa application for R350 using the SRD Sassa website.
Follow the below steps to fix your reapplication pending sassa status:
- Go to srd.sassa.gov.za to apply online
- Enter your mobile number
- Click “Send SMS”
- Then enter the one time pin (OTP) that Sassa has sent to the number
- Continue the application process by filling in the steps required
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