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No vaccination no R350 SASSA grant, reads the headline of an August 2021 article on 1 taal , a South African website. (Taal is Afrikaans for language.) South Africa’s Covid-19 social relief of distress grant is intended to support unemployed citizens, particularly those who have lost jobs due to the pandemic . The R350 monthly payment is administered by the South African Social Security Agency , or Sassa. SASSA had been given access to data on people who have registered to vaccinate and those who had already been vaccinated, the article claims . They had also been given instruction to prioritise those who had been vaccinated already when the R350 grant pay-out commence. It says this instruction came straight from the presidency and is intended to make the anti-vaccine group receive their money a bit later. It ends by claiming that some say Sassa is just looking for a way to cut some people out because 2021 grant applications are way too high compared to people who applied for the grant last year. The article was posted on 1 taal’s Facebook page . But is payment of Sassa’s Covid grant really linked to applicants’ vaccination status? ‘Vaccination not part of Covid grant criteria’ On 30 August, Sassa took to social media to debunk 1 taal’s claims. It posted a screenshot of the article on its official Facebook and Twitter pages, stamped FAKE. The below information is false and does NOT come from SASSA. COVID-19 vaccination is not part of the special COVID-19 SRD grant application criteria. #SASSACARES #Covid19SRDGrant @The_DSD @nda_rsa @PostofficeSa @GCISMedia @GovernmentZA pic.twitter.com/Q5Xk1ehSX3 — SASSA (@OfficialSASSA) August 30, 2021 The below information is false and does NOT come from SASSA, the agency wrote . COVID-19 vaccination is not part of the special COVID-19 SRD grant application criteria.
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