. Sassa says it successfully finalised 37,900 temporary disability grant assessments before its 31 March deadline. This leaves about 10,000 people with lapsed grants who still need to be medically assessed. Some of these people can’t be tracked by Sassa or missed their appointments, the agency says. But activist organisation Black Sash has said that despite progress clearing the backlog, its community monitoring has shown that the issue is “far from resolved”. Black Sash has picked up several cases where medical assessments were only scheduled after March, said national director Lynette Maart. She said that in addition, those who had been assessed did not know when a decision would be made.