Sassa Self Exclusion Response Found Meaning Explained
Have you applied for the SRD R350 Grant and your status is showing ‘self exclusion response found’? Here below is what Sassa explains what the self exclusion response found means.
One of the criteria that Sassa uses is that for you to qualify for the R350 grant, you must not be getting an income of a certain amount per month. On this cycle of SRD grant specifically, you must not get more that R350 per month to qualify for the grant.
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Sassa Self Exclusion Response Found Meaning
According to Sassa, this means that “The application has been declined because the information provided during the application process on the online application form, indicates that the applicant is already receiving a flow of funding; income or support of funds which is more than R350 per month, or the applicant stays in a government facility and therefore does not qualify for the grant.”

Other Reasons for SRD Grant Decline
Here are other reasons why SRD Grant applications are declined according to Sassa
Reason for decline | What it means |
Alternative income source identified | The applicant has been employed and is indicated as contributing towards income tax |
Identity verification failed | The personal information provided does not match the Department of Home Affairs details. |
Existing Sassa grant | The applicant is a current recipient of a Social grant other than a child grant |
Nsfas registered | The applicant is receiving a benefit from National Student Fund Aid Scheme |
Uif registered | The applicant is eligible for UIF benefits based on TERS OR Contributions to UIF OR is currently receiving the Unemployment Insurance Fund benefit |
Gov payroll registered | The applicant is in employment in a government institution |
Age outside range(>60) | The applicant does not qualify for the grant due to not meeting the age requirement ( Over 60) |
Suspended (Deceased Record on DHA) | The client is registered as deceased on the Department of Home Affairs database |
Debtor | The client was paid R350 once or more where the client did not qualify. The error was picked and the money is withheld to correct the error. Payments will resume if the client still qualifies, once all the outstanding R350s recovered. |
What can I do when my application is declined?
The client can apply for reconsideration via the SRD Website at this link https://srd.sassa.gov.za/reconsideration should the client wish to dispute the outcome. You can appeal every month as applications are reviewed on a monthly basis. Each rejection is for that particular month, you may still appeal for the upcoming month if declined again.
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Sassa is unfair, I have received 300 previous week from someone to buy food for my 9 months old baby,now I’m declined because of that 300. It’s pity because I’m unemployed and I am not receiving money every month,I’m jobless and still hard to find job.
Thanks me 6706970444084. I have applied most of the time I have been unemployed since 2020 March .Since this came out I never received due to the fact I’m either Sars registered or alternative income, I do not have alternative income Sars I can be registered coz I worked all my life. If you check Sars now for the passed 3 years there nothing registered . I’m not mad or disappointed I’m heartbroken coz j know people are just doing their job but checking people profile they must always double check . Honestly I also need the money jobs are hard to find also due to COVID.
I tried the reconsideration process again but it can’t be change even .
I have applied now they tell me I have another income of which I don’t have one
Its unfair coz im just trying to make away for myself to take care of my dayly responsibilities wile waiting on sassa to verify my application for three months now im decline for june wile april and may are pnding.is it rong that you have to provide for everyday needs i mean come on its my duties to handle my responsibility.
People who are not supposed to receive that money they’re still receiving it why mara ??
This is not fair we’re hungry as South African
Mine told me about exclusion what what while I was getting the money all along what now because I never work and I don’t own any Government facility I’m just me
I was arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 2003,got released in 2019,I’m now struggling because I’m not working,but srd grant was decline ,it’s says self exclusionary found,I’m so surprised because I’m outside now not in prison,
What the government is doing is wrong, they can’t deny application when they only see deposit of 300 or more while knowing that that person is unemployed. It is possible that someone can ask to use your account to deposit money of another person who doesn’t have the same account. And the owner of the account doesn’t use the money.
I received money to help me until the R350 get paid in my bank account. Then they decline me. So unfair.
I did not receive SDR grant since April I’m not working it is unfair that when you play lotto or any gambling then you win Sassa will say the money sitting in my account is income,For God sake I’m not working you do your research properly I’m not working I’m in need of that money
Really we have been waiting for 3 months to get that money untill I ask my friend from ad far as mpumalanga to do EFT to my account so I can buy food she send 400 and bank took its montly fee I was left with nothing then they decline me and im Diebetic I need to eat
I don’t any payment Avery month
Rebate is not a gain,tis a revolving money because you buy now and again with it against electricity.
It is unfair to decline a person who borrowed money that was paid into the bank account of that person who is just asking for help from people knowing he/she will repay it when they receive the R350 every month.
Ths Govt is totally puzzled in a situation like this,what is 35p and too they can’t identify a rebate for electricity from bank statement,aikona alot to be done here.
I have never recieved R 350.00 grant and I applied on my phone when first came out, and it must be put in my bank account at FNB which you have as my monthly grand goes in there. Thank you very much Mrs C A Kruger
It only says account is active it doesnt say declined
It only says account is active
Sassa is unfair, I have received 300 previous week from someone to buy food for my 9 months old baby,now I’m declined because of that 300. It’s pity because I’m unemployed and I am not receiving money every month,I’m jobless and still hard to find job.