This follows social grant beneficiaries using the Postbank/SASSA gold card struggling to withdraw their December grant payments from ATMs.
Postbank and SASSA say this follows attacks on the network by criminals. Postbank spokesperson Dr Bongani Diako says millions of grant recipients were affected. “Beneficiaries on the SASSA gold card are just about six- million, but we had already paid a good chunk of that. We had started with the old age grants; we had done the disability grants. We only implemented this necessary measure when we were starting to pay the child grants. So, a third of the six- million thereabouts is the number that we’ve moved to the retailers,” says Diako.
Stores force pensioners to buy before they are given their sassa money. Eg. Checkout Supermarkets insist that at minimum a loaf of bread and milk must purchased for sassa funds to be accessed. It is the grantees money and they should be entitled to 100% of it!
A deliberate act to boost shoprite
People are hungry out there OfficialSASSA Sassa PresidencyZA Please interfere, the cards are declining retail stores also this is unacceptable 😡😡😡😡
Kuphelile ngeposi bakithi
Not just Atms but the retail stores SASSA gold cards are declining at till points there are no funds on the cards
It's sad people can't withdraw money even in those retailers because the is no money in their cards😏😪
A sad state of affairs for the most vulnerable people in the country. Dysfunctional.
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