Klerksdorp Record, Klerksdorp - If you collect your grant payment at your local Post Office, you will have to make other arrangements.
According to the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), grant beneficiaries will no longer be able to collect their grants from the Post Office and Postbank. Physical cash payment points will also be phased out according to the organisations.
The phasing out will take place from this month. The hope is that by March the process will be finalised and completed.
This step by Sassa was initially announced in 2018 and was created as a way to deter cash-in-transit heists and reduce the stress on the struggling Post Office.
“Post Office branches will continue to assist Sassa beneficiaries with non-cash payments such as card reinsurances, PIN resets, printing of statements, and other such non-cash services. What will be discontinued is only the payment of cash to beneficiaries. So, the Post Office branch services will continue but only for non-cash transactions,” Bongani Diako, a spokesperson for PostBank, said.
