Find every benefit you're owed. Then actually claim it.
Check your SASSA status, find out what your result actually means, and discover the grants and free services most South African households never claim.
What's your situation?
SASSA, municipalities, schools and clinics each run their own programmes — and none tells you about the others. Pick yours and we'll assemble the whole claim.
- I'm unemployed
- I can't work
- I care for a child
- I was declined
- I wasn't paid
- I was retrenched
- I'm raising grandchildren
- I'm a refugee or asylum seeker
Prefer questions to lists? The benefits checker asks seven and ranks everything you qualify for.
Common tasks
All 8 SASSA grants, 2026/2027
The amounts that took effect on 1 April 2026, confirmed by SASSA after National Treasury approval. Where a figure is still being traced to the Government Gazette we mark it * — why we do that.
| Grant | Per month | Who it's for | Means test |
|---|---|---|---|
| SRD Grant (R370 grant) | R370 | 18–60, unemployed, no other income | Income under R624/month (monthly bank check) |
| Child Support Grant | R580 | Primary caregiver of a child under 18 | R5,800/month single, R11,600/month married |
| Older Persons Grant | R2,400 | 60 years and older (R2,420 from 75) | Income and asset thresholds apply |
| Disability Grant | R2,400 | 18–59, unable to work due to disability | Income and asset thresholds + medical assessment |
| Foster Child Grant | R1,290 | Foster parent with a court order | No means test |
| Care Dependency Grant | R2,400 | Caregiver of a child with a severe disability | R24,000/month single, R48,000/month married |
| Grant-in-Aid | R580 | Grant recipients who need full-time care | Must already receive a qualifying grant |
| War Veterans Grant | R2,420 | Veterans 60+ or disabled, WWII / Korean War | Income and asset thresholds apply |
Grants are only half of what you're entitled to
Around 2 million South African households qualify for free basic electricity and water. Under a quarter ever register. Add school fee exemptions, free healthcare and food support, and what goes unclaimed dwarfs the grants themselves.
See what else you can claim- ⚡ Free basic electricity
- 💧 Free basic water
- 🎒 School fee exemption
- 🏥 Free healthcare (H0)
- 🥫 Food parcels
- 🏠 Housing support
What changed recently
- SASSA payment dates for October 2026SASSA October 2026 payment dates: Older Persons on 2 October, Disability on 5 October, Child Support on 6 October, and all other grants — including grants under review — on 7 October.
- The R370 SRD grant reaches the Supreme Court of AppealThe state is appealing the High Court finding that the rules governing the R370 SRD grant are unconstitutional. What is being argued, and what it does and does not change for applicants right now.
- SASSA payment dates for September 2026SASSA September 2026 payment dates: Older Persons on 2 September, Disability on 3 September, Child Support on 4 September, and all other grants — including grants under review — on 7 September.
On money, a wrong number costs more than a missing page
Every figure carries a visible verification date and a link to its official source. Where reputable sources disagree we say so with an asterisk instead of guessing, and we hold back pages whose data we cannot verify rather than filling them with numbers from sites that contradict each other. Mistakes are fixed publicly, never silently.
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