Lack of SASSA pay points puts further financial pressure on grant dependents
5 March 2021
Note to Editors: Please find attached soundbites in English & Afrikaans from Gizella Opperman, MP.
The Northern Cape’s ongoing lack of SASSA services has prompted the Democratic Alliance (DA) to fight for alternative pay points for forgotten rural towns.
It is unacceptable that places like Hondeklip Bay have no SASSA service, and recipients must hire transport to Springbok at R1200, or to Garies and Kleinzee at R700, to receive their pension payouts of R1890. The people of Soebatsfontein, Spoeg River, Lepelsfontein and Klipfontein face a similar situation.
What is left of grant payouts – after expenses incurred to obtain them – is to cry about and places an increasing number of households at an eternal stranglehold of need.