Sassa beneficiaries given extra time to switch to black cards

Current gold card can only be utilised to the end of May

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Postbank has announced a two-month extension for beneficiaries using the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold card to switch to the Postbank black card, allowing them to continue accessing their social grants through April and May.

Postbank CEO Nikki Mbengashe stressed that beneficiaries who have not yet replaced their gold cards with the new black Postbank card now have additional time to make the switch.

The government had initially set the deadline for the transition to the new cards to February 28 after which a second extension was set for March 20.

Mbengashe said the extension provides relief for those who have not yet completed the card replacement process.

"This is now mainly, of course, to those beneficiaries who have not had the time to go and replace their gold card with the black card.