Post Office gazetted as the preferred payment channel for all social grants
26 June 2018
The Post Office has been gazetted as the preferred payment channel for all social grants in South Africa in a ground-breaking government-led initiative.
The Post Office has now swapped over one million social grants beneficiaries from the outgoing CPS SASSA card to the new SASSA card issued by Postbank.
“The first million beneficiaries do not include those beneficiaries that have willingly opted to take-up Postbank Mzansi accounts as their preferred payment method,” says SAPO COO Lindiwe Kwele.
The Post Office says social grant beneficiaries with the old white SASSA card, which will be fully phased out by 30 September, should swap it for the new gold SASSA card. Card swapping can be done at SASSA offices nationally on any work day as well as at all the SASSA pay-points during the on-coming July grants payment cycle.