Site coverage: what's live, what's coming, and when
SA Benefits is being built in four public phases, covering roughly 200 pages across grants, situations, tools, basic needs, help and work. This page is the honest ledger of that build: ✅ marks what is live today, ⏳ marks what arrives in the next few days, and everything else shows its scheduled phase. We publish a page only when its figures are verified — never as a placeholder with guessed numbers.
Why phases, and why this order
Phase 1 ships the thing people need most urgently: the complete SRD grant silo — status meanings, all 10 decline reasons, appeals and payment fixes — plus the trust layer and the benefits checker. Phase 2 adds the permanent grants and SASSA operations; Phase 3 the full toolset and municipal services (verified city by city); Phase 4 the work-and-UIF bridge, timed to the Livelihoods Support Grant policy milestones.
Coming in the next few days
- Livelihoods Grant: what changes for SRD recipients (Work & UIF)
- Livelihoods Support Grant timeline tracker (Work & UIF)
- Grant lapsed: why it ended and how to reapply (Grants)
- Permanent grant payment not received (Grants)
- Older Persons Grant (state pension) (Grants)
- Disability Grant (Grants)
- Child Support Grant (Grants)
- Help: cards, offices, contact and problems (Help & offices)
- Postbank black card migration (Help & offices)
- Grandparents raising grandchildren (Get help)
- Support for refugees and asylum seekers (Get help)
- Retrenched: your money map for the next 12 months (Get help)
- The indigent register: your gateway to free basic services (Basic needs)
- Free basic electricity (Basic needs)
- Food banks and community kitchens (Basic needs)
- Free healthcare: the H0–H3 classification (Basic needs)
- Legal Aid: free lawyers for grant and benefit disputes (Basic needs)
The four phases in full
Spine, trust & flagship tool
Weeks 1–8 · live now64 of 66 items live (97%)The complete SRD grant silo, the trust layer, the benefits checker, scam protection, and the first beyond-grants pages.
Grants
- Grants — live
- Means test — live
- Grant review — live
- Grant suspended — live
- SRD Grant — live
- Status check — live
- Eligibility — live
- Means test — live
- No record found — live
- Bank details pending — live
- Identity verification failed — live
- Declined — live
- Alternative income source — live
- UIF registered — live
- NSFAS bursary — live
- Government payroll — live
- Existing SASSA grant — live
- Means test failed — live
- Identity verification — live
- Age criteria — live
- Deceased record — live
- Other database — live
- Appeal — live
- Appeal status — live
- Appeal dismissed — live
- Apply — live
- What you need — live
- Refugees & asylum seekers — live
- Reapply — live
- Payment not received — live
- Payment dates — live
- Payment methods — live
- Backpay — live
- Change phone number — live
- Change banking details — live
- Cancel — live
Get help
- Get help — live
- Declined for SRD — live
- Unemployed — live
- Can't work — live
- Caring for a child — live
Tools
- Tools — live
- Benefits checker — live
Basic needs
- Basic needs — live
- Food parcels — live
- ID documents — live
Help & offices
- Scams — live
- Fake status sites — live
- You never pay — live
Work & UIF
- Livelihoods Support Grant — live
- What changes for SRD ⏳ next few days
- Timeline ⏳ next few days
Updates
- Updates — live
- August 2026 payment dates — live
- SA Benefits is live — live
- Grant review drive — live
- Livelihoods Grant August — live
SA Benefits
- About — live
- How we verify — live
- Our sources — live
- Team — live
- Contact — live
- Corrections — live
- Privacy — live
- Terms — live
- Disclaimer — live
Platform features
- Design system with full dark mode — live
- Mobile-first, data-light pages (no heavy scripts or hero images) — live
- Structured data (Organization, WebSite, Breadcrumbs, FAQ, Articles) — live
- Answer-first article architecture with verification dates — live
- Benefits checker v1 (client-side, zero data collection) — live
- Sitemap, robots and llms.txt — live
Permanent grants & operations
Weeks 9–181 of 34 items live (3%)All 7 permanent grant hubs, the shared grants layer (payment dates, appeals, documents, medical assessments), SASSA card and office guides, and the monthly updates cadence.
Grants
- Grant lapsed ⏳ next few days
- Payment not received ⏳ next few days
- Payment dates — live
- Appeal — planned
- How to apply — planned
- Documents — planned
- Medical assessment — planned
- Multiple grants — planned
- Increases — planned
- Older Persons ⏳ next few days
- Disability ⏳ next few days
- Temporary vs permanent — planned
- Child Support ⏳ next few days
- Not the biological parent — planned
- Top-up — planned
- Foster Child — planned
- Court order — planned
- Lapsed order — planned
- Care Dependency — planned
- Grant-in-Aid — planned
- War Veterans — planned
Help & offices
- Help ⏳ next few days
- SASSA card — planned
- Card not working — planned
- Lost or stolen card — planned
- Black card ⏳ next few days
- Offices — planned
- Contact SASSA — planned
- Deceased beneficiary — planned
- Collecting for someone — planned
- Moving provinces — planned
- Complaints — planned
- Glossary — planned
Grouped work
- SASSA office pages — 9 provinces — One verified page per province
Platform features
- Site-wide instant search with suggestions and typo tolerance
- Table of contents with reading progress on long guides
- Trending topics bar
Tools & basic needs
Weeks 19–280 of 35 items live (0%)The remaining 8 calculators and checkers, the complete basic-needs pillar, verified municipality pages for the 8 metros, the remaining situation routers, and translations of the top 15 pages.
Get help
- Grandparents ⏳ next few days
- Refugees & asylum seekers ⏳ next few days
- Retrenched ⏳ next few days
Tools
- Means test calculator — planned
- Grant amount calculator — planned
- Appeal deadline calculator — planned
- Document checklist — planned
- Payment date finder — planned
- Office finder — planned
- Free basic services checker — planned
- School fee calculator — planned
Basic needs
- Indigent register ⏳ next few days
- Free electricity ⏳ next few days
- Free water — planned
- Rates rebates — planned
- Debt relief — planned
- Food banks ⏳ next few days
- School fee exemption — planned
- School refused — planned
- No-fee schools — planned
- School nutrition — planned
- Scholar transport — planned
- Free healthcare ⏳ next few days
- Chronic medication — planned
- RDP housing — planned
- Housing waiting list — planned
- Social housing — planned
- Emergency housing — planned
- First Home Finance — planned
- Legal aid ⏳ next few days
- Indigent burial — planned
- Disaster relief — planned
Grouped work
- Municipality pages — 8 metros — Indigent register details, published only once all six data fields are verified per metro
- Multilingual top 15 — isiZulu, Afrikaans, isiXhosa and Sesotho versions of the most-used pages
- City office pages — 30 cities — Verified office data only
Platform features
- Reading modes (simplified, large text) and saved preferences
- Recently viewed and continue-reading
- Multilingual interface (zu, af, xh, st)
Work bridge & local depth
Weeks 29+0 of 11 items live (0%)The complete work & UIF cluster, 15 further municipality pages, and city office pages — timed to the October 2026 MTBPS and the March 2027 Livelihoods Grant decision.
Work & UIF
- Work & UIF — planned
- UIF — planned
- Claim UIF — planned
- UIF status — planned
- UI-19 — planned
- UIF declined — planned
- Job seeker registration — planned
- EPWP — planned
- Learnerships — planned
- YES programme — planned
Grouped work
- Municipality pages — 15 large locals — The tier-2 local municipality layer
Hold us to it
This page updates as pages ship. If something marked "coming in days" hasn't arrived, or a guide you need isn't planned at all, tell us — reader demand reorders the queue. Every published figure follows the verification policy, and mistakes land in the public correction log.