This site explains South African social grants in plain language: the SRD grant from application to appeal, the permanent grants for older persons, children and people with disabilities, tools that decode statuses and check eligibility, guides by situation, and how to avoid the scams that use SASSA's name. Pages are published only when complete; what is being written next is listed below.
Which topic areas does the site cover?
SRD grant
Applying, eligibility and the means test, what every status means, every decline reason and its fix, appeals, identity verification, banking details and phone-number changes, and what to do when the portal will not load.
Permanent grants
Older Persons, Disability, Child Support, Foster Child, Care Dependency, Grant-in-Aid and War Veterans: who qualifies, how to apply, payment dates, reviews and suspensions.
Tools
A status decoder, a decline-reason decoder, a means-test calculator, an eligibility checker, an appeal-deadline calculator and a document checklist.
Support by situation
Which grants apply if you are unemployed, retrenched, caring for a child, a grandparent, disabled, a pensioner, a student, an informal worker, or a refugee or asylum seeker.
Help and scams
Official channels, how to escalate a complaint, SASSA offices, and the scams to recognise: fake status sites, fake WhatsApp numbers, pay-to-approve, SIM-swap and ID fraud, and loan scams.
Updates
Checks on circulating claims — extensions, increases, court rulings, public holidays — confirmed or corrected against official sources.
In order of priority. Titles are plain text until the page exists.
Next: the remaining scam guides
Fake WhatsApp numbers and pay-to-approve scams
SIM-swap fraud, ID fraud and loan scams
The escalation ladder, complaints, and finding a SASSA office
Then: the remaining permanent grants
Foster Child, Care Dependency, Grant-in-Aid and War Veterans
Grant reviews, suspensions and life certification
Then: tools and situation guides
Status and decline-reason decoders, means-test calculator, eligibility checker
Guides for people who are unemployed, retrenched, caring for a child, pensioners, students
Why not publish everything at once?
A half-finished page about money or a deadline is worse than no page. Each guide is published only once every figure has been through the checks on how we verify. If there is a topic you need sooner, say so — reader requests move things up the list.