Covid-19: Social welfare department considering staggering Sassa payment dates

Johannesburg - The Department of Social Development is working with the Department of Health on precautionary measures to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 at service delivery points offering assistance to social welfare beneficiaries, it said on Tuesday.

The social development department said preventive measures were essential at delivery points offering services to South Africa's most vulnerable groups including children, youth, women, older persons and people with disabilities. The department said the spread of Covid-19 would exacerbate the vulnerability of poor households and was likely to increase the demand for social grants, food relief and psycho-social services for affected individuals and families.

They must start with grants collection points for the elderly,women, children, and people with addition,free shelters, and Early Child Wood Development Centres.

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