Old Age Homes for SASSA Pensioners

Old age homes for SASSA pensioners is a scheme recently launched for old age or senior South Africans who aren’t able to take care of themselves due to old age weaknesses.

SASSA old age scheme comes under the same grant as SASSA old age grant in which you will get a living space in specially allocated homes by SASSA where you will be living under high care fulfilling all your food and medicines needs on a daily basis.

This scheme can grant you home space for living in your golden age time going through a simple application process in which you apply for admission to an old age home.

The SASSA team after receiving your application will come to your current residence and analyze your lifestyle to check whether you are a deserving one for old age home by SASSA.

Old age homes by SASSA is a completely different facility by SASSA from old age grant, don’t confuse this facility with old age grant.

How to Apply for Old Age Homes for SASSA Pensioners

Before you go further in detail about for applying an old age home for SASSA pensioners, keep in mind that the most important and primary requirement is your medical report that mentions that you are medically weak due to old age.

To apply for old age home admission, go through the following steps.

• Visit your nearest Social Development office or SASSA office and ask them to provide you with an application form for an old age home.
• Fill out the form correctly and be honest and transparent in providing all the personal details required there.
• Attach a photocopy of your national ID card and your medical report proving your old age weakness and submit your application to the counter.
• After some time they will call you for a medical screening test that will be held by SASSA itself to confirm your deservedness. 
• After the verification team is satisfied with their investigation, your grant will be granted to you within 30-40 days.

In case you are severely weak in terms of health, you can allocate someone in your relation to process all your applications on your behalf. In this situation, a SASSA verification professional will physically visit your home to verify your application and supporting documents.

Requirements for SASSA Old Age Homes

There are some compulsory requirements in the shape of some documents that you must have in your hand before applying for old age homes, any missing requirement may cause problems in your application process. Carefully see the following requirements before you proceed further.

• Hard copy of your pension fund receipt or your SASSA old age grant receipt. 
• Your medical report shows your health condition or proves that you aren’t able to take care of yourself.
• Your age must be 60 or above according to your national ID card.
• Your national identity document or the document legally proving that you are a South African citizen.

These requirements must be fulfilled in order to get this facility, any missing requirement may cause unsuccessful application for receiving this facility.

Facilities You Get in an Old Age Home

• Timely food on your table.
• Necessary medicines.
• 24 hours of good care for you.
• Neat and clean bedding and overall environment.
• The carers always take care of your cleanliness.
• You are allowed to meet your children or relatives at any time you want. SASSA doesn’t have any type of limitation for meeting your relatives.

These facilities are same for all old age people living in old age homes, no one is treated differently on the basis of status and background, additional or personal facilities from any relative of the old age resident are also accepted for the resident.

How to Check Status of Old Age Homes Application

To see the application status for SASSA old age homes, there is not yet any tool developed by SASSA like SASSA application status, however, you can try the following ways to know the status.

1. Contact SASSA using an official number and ask.
2. You may get a notification on your phone through SMS or on your email about your status.
3. Use the SASSA SMS service, or you can also inquire about it using official SASSA WhatsApp number.
4. Visit any SASSA office nearest to you.

Old Age Home Locations in South Africa

SASSA has allocated a large network of old age homes in different regions of South Africa which you can select according to your ease. It is advised to choose wisely your old age home location which is somehow near to your original guardians or relatives to whom you can meet in a time frame of a week or a month.

SASSA Old Age Accommodation in Johannesburg, Boksbur, and Krugersdorp

Following are the officially designated old homes in the area of Johannesburg, Krugersdorp, and Boksburg, as SASSA announces a new location in such local areas, it will be updated here soon.

Old Age Homes for SASSA Pensioners Durban

Here are currently known accommodation for SASSA pensioners in the Durban area, as new apartment is officially declared by SASSA will be updated in the following table.

Western Cape

North West

Mpumalanga

Limpopo

All these homes and locations are officially announced by SASSA. If SASSA allocates any new location for an old-age home, it will be updated here immediately.

Precautions

1. Especially for old age homes, there is a huge number of scammers in the country, be aware of them, if you need any assistance regarding this, you must contact SASSA officials.
2. Old Age Homes for Pensioners scheme is a type of extension or a part of old age grant, before applying for this, make sure you have enough information on both these benefit types SASSA offers.
3. Try to avoid services from private companies that offer you or guarantee approval of an old age grant.
4. SASSA’s old age grant may be for a lifetime for an individual, so if someone offers you a service to renew SASSA grant, simply reject the offer.
5. Try to deal directly with SASSA and avoid third parties out there.

FAQs

Other SASSA Grants

• Care Dependency Grant.
• Child Support Grant
• Old Age Grant.
• Grant In-Aid
• Disability Grant
• Foster Child Grant
• War Veterans Grant

For more information:

Call: 0800601011
Email: grantsenquiries@sassa.gov.za