Reminder: NSFAS Applications for 2024 will close soon. In a statement issued in November 2023, the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) said the applications for 2024 funding will November close on 31 January 2024.
Reminder: NSFAS Applications for 2024 will close soon
NSFAS encouraged students to provide accurate details, more especially parental information when applying so that when validations occur with Home Affairs, students can be easily funded and not be subjected to appeal processes to prove parental relationship.
In the past few years the parental relationship verification has been a challenge where students change their guardian information for the sake of the bursary.
NSFAS Said, “It is also important that students note that they don’t need results when they are entering post school education and training for the first time. Furthermore, NSFAS is engaged in conversation with the Department of Basic Education to improve the application validation processes including verifying parental relationships and all these improvements will ensure that funding decisions are confirmed timeously,”
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According to SABC news, the NSFAS Board also announced on that day that it will continue to make funding decisions for new South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) beneficiaries. Immediate funding decisions mean that as soon as the applicants submit their applications online they will receive an outcome from NSFAS.