By Amy Musgrave
Civil society groups have welcomed a judgment by the high court in Pretoria that regulations implemented by the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) in 2023 on the social relief of distress (SRD) grant are unconstitutional.
The court ruled on Thursday that a number of regulations, which limited access to the grant of R370, were also invalid.
It said that regulations relating to the grant applications only being allowed to be lodged online, and the definitions of “income” and “financial support” must be amended as they restricted access to the grant to fewer people and Sassa’s strict appeal’s process.
The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) and #PaytheGrants lodged a court application challenging the constitutionality and lawfulness of the steps the state had taken, or failed to take, in carrying out its commitment to provide the grant to adults of a working age who needed it.
The court also
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