Looking for ways to check your IRP5 Status or possibly checking your R350 grant application status. You can check on your SARS eFiling profile to see if your IRP5 has been submitted to SARS (this should have been done by your ex-employer).
This can be done by requesting your Tax Return in eFiling and it hopefully will already be populated with your IRP5 details.
What To Do If R350 Grant Application Status is ‘IRP5 Registered’
If you check your R350 grant application status and it tells you that you were rejected because you’re IRP5 registered, this means that databases are picking you up as someone who pays tax which means you’re receiving an income.
You could also be seeing that you receive money through UIF which would then leave you to not qualify for the grant.
This is of course an issue as the main requirement to receive the SRD grant is to be unemployed and not be receiving any other incomes, grants or payments.
However, many South Africans who get this message have not worked for ages and are left confused.
Paseka Letsatsi, Spokesperson for SASSA, explained:
Unfortunately, if your name appears there, we as the South African Security Agency do not necessarily expertise of what UIF has or perhaps at Home Affairs … we cannot argue.