Where And When Collect Your New Sassa Card

Thousands of citizens benefit from social grants every month, enabling them to purchase basic goods and services. Grant recipients should collect new gold cards so they can continue receiving their grants.

 Where And When Collect Your New Sassa Card

SSA has made it easier for grant recipients to get their gold cards. As the gold cards they are currently using expire in the near future, many beneficiaries need to collect new ones.It is the same as using a regular bank card when using a Sassa gold card. Any supermarket or retail store can accept gold cards as payment.

A new Sassa gold card can be collected at a Post Office branch by beneficiaries whose current cards are expiring. The only beneficiaries who need to collect a new card at a post office are those whose cards are due to expire by March 2023.

There is an important distinction to make here: the Post Office will only issue gold cards to the name of the individual whose card is expiring. Sassa gold cards cannot be collected on behalf of others unless a procurator is registered with Sassa.

When You Can Collect A Gold Card

New gold cards are issued on Mondays and Tuesdays to beneficiaries of old age grants and disability grants.A new gold card is issued to all child support grant beneficiaries and all remaining grants from Wednesday to Saturday.

Post Office Branch Operating Hours:

• Mondays to Fridays : 8 AM  – 4 PM
•  Saturday: 9 AM – 1 PM
•  Sunday: Closed

What Is Needed To Collect A New Sassa Gold Card:

• Your South African Identity Document (ID)
• Your Sassa gold card expiring in March 2023

Upon receiving their new gold cards, grant beneficiaries will be able to activate them and select a PIN from the Post Office, according to Sassa. With this completed, grant recipients will be able to make purchases and withdrawals using the card.

The Post Office also provides new gold cards for individuals who have lost theirs. A new card will be issued after a verification check is conducted by Post Office staff, according to Sassa.

A new Sassa/Postbank Gold card will be issued to the beneficiary through fingerprint verification at the Post OfficeThere is a caution against visiting the Post Office if your Sassa gold card is not expiring by March 2023.