By Amy Musgave
The DA will write to Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe to ask that no SA Social Security Agency gold cards expire before all of them have been replaced, and that interim verification measures be put in place urgently so that deserving recipients get their grants.
It said on Sunday that had been inundated by worried beneficiaries who feared that they would not receive their social grants, either because their gold cards were set to stop working at the end of February or because they were unable to verify their details for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant as the agency’s verification system has been temporarily suspended.
The DA further encouraged gold card users to switch from Postbank to other reputable and reliable banks to receive their grants.
“The switch to the black cards has been chaotic, with SASSA beneficiaries often being sent from pillar to post
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