Southern States Bancshares, Inc. announced that as previously reported on February 22, 2023, Christine Hunsaker, Daniel A. Cummings and Jonathan Hinton were appointed to the board of directors of the Company. At the time of the Original 8-K, Ms. Hunsaker and Messrs. Cummings and Hinton had not been appointed to any committee of the Board.

This amendment to the Original 8-K is being filed to report that on March 15, 2023, the Board appointed Ms. Hunsaker to its Audit and Asset/Liability Committees, Mr. Cummings to its Asset/Liability and Directors Loan Committees, and Mr. Hinton to its Asset/Liability, Information Technology and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.