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These grants will remain in payment until October,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisability grant applications require assessment by a medical doctor. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a situation where services from the Health Department, such as these assessments, were suspended in order to redirect resources at combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Temporary disability grants have a lifespan of 12 months and beneficiaries have to reapply after the prescribed period. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 12 months, there is a possibility that a medical condition might have improved to the extent that it does not require continuation of temporary disability grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SASSA strategy, to reintroduce disability related services as from July, required all regions to engage the provincial Departments of Health to determine what support can be provi-ded. The reintroduction of disability services is impacted by the limited access to health facilities and this is why the strategy developed provides for a phased in approach.<\/p>\n<p>The different categories of disability grant applications will be prioritised as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Priority 1: All clients whose medical assessments were done before lockdown, but having incomplete applications. Medical assessments for disability grants are valid for a period of three months only and the first priority will be to complete the applications before the medicals expire. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Medicals for care dependency grants do not expire, so any which were done prior to lockdown will result in an application. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Priority 2: All applications which were booked for assessment but assessments could not be done prior to lockdown. There are 19 035 priority 1 and 2 cases in the country.<\/li>\n<li> Priority 3: Permanent disability grant beneficiaries who were last paid in January this year, because they did not complete the review process as legislatively required. There are a total of 1 844 of these clients nationally. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The majority of these clients were in fact booked for assessments prior to lockdown, and therefore are catered for under category two.<\/p>\n<p>The above three priorities will be dealt with on an appointment basis only and the local offices will contact the clients to make these appointments, as the details are known.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Priority 4: Urgent cases which are referred by Departments of Health with medical assessments already having been done in the health facility. This could be, for example, clients who were hospitalised and discharged but are not able to be employed at all due to their disability. 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