SASSA Happy Easter wishes leave grant beneficiaries COLD
Well-meaning SASSA Happy Easter wishes have recipients fuming after payments were held back till after the long weekend …
A SASSA Happy Easter message on the agency’s social media channels is going viral, but not in a good way. That’s because the social welfare distributor broke with protocol and decided to split grant payments up to either side of the Easter long weekend. This decision has left millions of recipients without grants over the holidays …
SASSA HAPPY EASTER MESSAGE FALLS FLAT
Typically, SASSA Old-Age Grants are distributed on the first Tuesday of every month. However, due to peculiarities in the 2026 calendar, this date only falls on Tuesday 7 April 2026, after the Easter long weekend.
Meanwhile, SASSA Disability, War Veterans and Childcare are always paid on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month, which neatly fall on Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 April 2026, respectively.
SASSA ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES
However, for reasons unknown, the agency opted to backtrack Old-Age Grants to Thursday 2 April 2026, ahead of the long weekend. But delay all remaining grants till after the long weekend. In a move The South African can’t recall seeing before, Disability and War Veterans are therefore to be paid next week on Tuesday 7 April and Childcare on Wednesday 8 April 2026.
Not exactly the SASSA Happy Easter message the country’s needy were hoping for. We had readers contacting us in the aftermath, saying they would be unable to attend church this long weekend because they have no money for taxi fare. Moreover, rubbing salt in the wound, the South African Social Security Agency delivered the following message to its beneficiaries this weekend …
SASSA HAPPY EASTER WISHES
“SASSA wishes all beneficiaries a joyful and peaceful Easter weekend. May the special time bring you renewal and moments of happiness with loved ones. Your safety and well-being remain our priority,” said SASSA.
One irate commenter summed up the sentiment perfectly on X: “You couldn’t move grant disbursements by one day to help millions of people. Then you have the audacity to post SASSA Happy Easter wishes. Y’all don’t give a $@I# about the poor.”
But what do you think? Are you one of the millions who went grantless over the long weekend? Let us know how it affected you and how you would have handled it differently if you were SASSA …
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