Sassa October Payment Dates 2025
Sassa October Payment Dates 2025
SASSA Grants October 2025: When to Expect Your Payment
Sassa payments for October are often distributed across many days to enable smooth delivery of cash and to satisfy the vast number of recipients. Specific payment dates may fluctuate depending on your payment plan, so be aware of the appropriate schedule.
However, it is crucial for beneficiaries to stay updated with the payment dates for the month of October. This article will provide you with the payment dates of October, Payment methods and the available grants.
Sassa October Payment Dates 2025
Sassa grants are distributed to beneficiaries on the specified payment dates each month. Grants are paid by Sassa in the first week of each month.
If the payment day falls on a weekend or holiday, payment is delayed until the next working day in the month. The following is the October SASSA payment dates:
- Older Persons or Pensioners Grants: 3 October 2025
- Disability Grants: 4 October 2025
- Children’s and all other Grants: 5 October 2025
Sassa Grants Available For 2025
Sassa offers a variety of grants to eligible citizens of South Africa every month to ease the rising of poverty among them. The grants offered by the social agency include:
- Care Dependency Grant
The Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD Grant), also known as the COVID-19 SRD Grant, was formed by the South African government to provide financial assistance to those who do not have any financial means to support themselves. The grant award is R350 per month, for as long as candidates meet the requirements.
- Child Support Grant
The Care Dependency Grant is a payment from the government of South Africa to parents, foster parents, or primary caregivers of a child under the age of 18, who requires full-time care due to a mental or physical disability. The value of the Care Dependency Grant isR2 080 per child, per month
- Foster Child Grant
The Foster Child Grant is a payment from the government of South Africa, to a foster parent (by a valid court order) of a child under the age of 18. The grant is aimed at foster parents who need financial assistance to help take care of a foster child or children. The value of the Foster Child Grant isR1 120, per child
- Disability Grant
The Disability Grant is a payment from the government of South Africa to adults who are living with a physical or mental disability, making them unable to work for a period of 6 or more months. The Disability Grant isR2 080 per person, per month
- Older Person Grant
The Older Persons Grant (also called the old age pension grant) is a payment from the government of South Africa, to people residing in South Africa over the age of 60 years. the old age pension is R2 080 per person, per month, for people between 60 and 74 years old and R2 100 per person, per month, for people over 75 years old.
- Grant-In-Aid
The Grant-In-Aid is a payment from the government of South Africa to current social grant recipients who are unable to care for themselves, in order for them to pay someone to take care of them full-time. The value of the Grant-In-Aid isR500 per month
- War Veterans Grant
The War Veterans Grant is a payment from the government of South Africa, to people residing in South Africa over have served in the Second World War or the Korean War. In order to qualify for this grant, applicants must be either over the age of 60 or disabled. They must also pass the “means test” which assesses their income and assets. the war veterans grant is R2 100 per person, per month.
Sassa Payment Method 2025
If you are a SASSA grant recipient, I’m sure you have chosen a payment method via which you will receive your grant payment. If this is the case, you will receive your SASSA Grant payment via your preferred payment method.
SASSA payment options include bank transfers, ATM withdrawals, and purchases from retailers such as Shoprite, U-Save, Boxer, Pick & Pay, and Checkers.
SASSA Grants Contact Details
For any further queries, please contact SASSA directly:
- Contact the SASSA Toll-Free Call centre at 0800 60 10 11
- Contact the SASSA Head Office on 012 400 2322
- Email SASSA Head Office at: Grantsenquiries@sassa.gov.za
- Contact details of SASSA offices across the country: Contact SASSA
Recipients should be informed that the payment dates shown above are subject to change. SASSA takes every attempt to communicate such changes in advance through different channels to reduce inconvenience. For more information visit the officialwebsite of Sassa.
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