SASSA Care Dependency Grant | A Complete Guide for All 2024

SASSA Care Dependency Grant: Introduction

Sassa Care Dependency Grant is also known as the disability child grant. This is a ray of hope for the parents or families caring for children with disabilities. Sassa cares for children with intense physical or mental disabilities and gives them financial support. The vital aid assists the parents, foster parents, or primary caregivers of a disabled child. The grant is available for children under the age of 18.

Eligibility criteria for SASSA care dependency Grant

If you want to check your eligibility for the grant you have to qualify the following criteria.

You must be a permanent resident of South Africa or a legitimate refugee with a permanent residency status.
Your current resident location must be in South Africa.
The child for whom you are willing to get the grant must be under 18 years of age.
You need to submit the medical certificate of the child confirming the permanent severe disability by the verified doctor.
The parents must meet the mean test requirements. Exemptions are there for the foster parents.
The child must not be admitted or getting care from any state institution, and don’t receive any other financial grant.

Means Test for the Care Dependency Grant

To make sure that only worthy people receive the grant, the care dependence grant applicants’ income is assessed using the SASSA means test. As of April 1, 2023, if you are single, your annual income must exceed R249,6000 to be eligible for the means test. If married, the combined yearly income cannot exceed R499 200.

Foster parents are not subject to the means test condition since they are not required to meet any requirements to be eligible. If their child has a serious disability, applicants for foster child grants may also be eligible for care dependence awards.

The parameters for the means test used to determine an applicant’s financial eligibility vary depending on the type of award.

Required documents for Care Dependency Grant 2024

You need to submit the following documents with the application for the sassa care dependency grant. Remember! The documents must be original and certified.

The identity card for the parents or foster parents

The child’s birth certificate
In case you don’t have an identity or child’s birth certificate you need to submit the affidavit. The affidavit will be supplied by the SASSA authorities.

Evidence of your status as married:

If you are married, show your marriage certificate.
Divorce Decree: When a marriage dissolves.
Death Certificate: in case your partner has passed away.
If you are married, please submit any documents that list your income as well as that of your spouse. Foster parents are not subject to this requirement.
bank statements for the previous three months or paystubs if you are employed.
whether you are eligible for UIF benefits, or your UIF card.
If you were employed, you must submit a copy of your previous employer’s termination letter or proof of your Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) membership.
pension receipt if you receive one.
Evidence of any financial assistance you have received expressly for the child, or a statement indicating your attempts to obtain financial support from the child’s biological parents but to no avail.

evidence of the child’s income.

If you are not the child’s biological parent, you must show that you are the child’s primary caregiver by presenting one of the following documents:
police station affidavit.
The social worker’s report.
written consent from the child’s biological parent designating you as the child’s caregiver.
a letter verifying the child’s enrollment from the principal of the school.
The court order (applicable solely to foster parents) formally designates you as the child’s legal foster parent.
The child’s handicap is verified by a medical evaluation report, which also attests to the fact that he is receiving ongoing care or assistance at home.

Application Process of Care Dependency Grant

The child must first be evaluated by a physician assigned by SASSA to apply for the care dependency grant. Once the medical evaluation is finished, you can fill out an application for a SASSA Care Dependence Grant 2024 at the SASSA office branch closest to you. Read the guidelines for applying online via the SASSA services website if you would like to do so.

If you are too elderly, too unwell, or have any kind of impairment, you can have a friend or trusted family member apply on your behalf. A letter from you and a note from your doctor justifying your inability to visit the SASSA office personally should be provided to the person applying on your behalf.

The application forms must be filled out in the presence of a SASSA officer and are available at SASSA offices. Although you can fill out the application on your own, the officer will help you if you are unable to do so. In addition, the officer will interview you or your designated representative and notify you of your eligibility for the grant.

You will receive a dated stamp receipt with the name of the SASSA officer who helped you with the application after finishing the application and interview. Keep this receipt as proof of application even if you are not qualified.

Processing time and amount of care dependency grant

The application for a care dependence grant may take up to three months to process. You will be paid for all of the money you submitted on the day your application was received, once your application has been processed through to the point where your grant has been approved. If SASSA rejects your application, you will receive a letter explaining the reasons for the rejection and providing instructions on how to begin the appeals procedure.

Each year, the grant’s amount varies. The monthly stipend amount is R1 980 per child.

Note: There is no free from the sassa for applying for the sassa care dependency grant

Sassa care dependency grant status check

Once your application is submitted, you can use the Sassa status check to track its progress and find out if it was accepted, rejected, or is currently in the process of being authorized. After your application is accepted, you must periodically check the status of the dates and grant payments you will be receiving to stay informed. You can use the following techniques to find out the status of your grant:

Via the official webpage
Through Moya App
By SMS to the Sassa number
Using WhatsApp
By getting in touch with the Sassa office.

Payment method of sassa care dependency grant

You have the option of receiving the funds electronically into your bank account or receiving it in cash on specified days at pay points. Keep in mind that any money coming into or leaving your bank account is subject to bank fees. By completing a form at a Welfare office, you can choose a different payment method at any time; however, the change will take effect after a month.

Your payment starts from the date you applied for the grant after qualifying.

You can check the sassa care dependency grant balance

You may find out how much money is left on your grant by using the SASSA balance check facility. You can manage your finances and make wise decisions with your grant money by keeping track of your balance and being informed. Following approval of your care dependence grant application and the issuance of grant payments, you may need to periodically verify your balance using the following techniques:

Using your mobile, call the USSD code *120*3210# or *120*69277#.

Through the SASSA WhatsApp number 082 046 8553, at any ATM (regular bank fees may apply).

through dialing the toll-free number 0800 601 011 of the SASSA call center

suspension and restoration of the grant

The grant suspension could occur for the following reasons:

When your financial situation alters (applied only to foster parents).
The financial or health circumstances of your child alter.
You committed fraud or gave incorrect information.
During the examination of your grant, you did not cooperate.
The review’s conclusion.
if the award for your child was inadvertently approved.

You can reapply within 90 days of the suspension of your grant for the restoration.

Responsibilities of the beneficiary

Keep SASSA informed of any changes to your personal or financial situation to maintain accuracy. Additionally, inform them of your child’s progress.

Notifying SASSA of changes to your address or personal contact information promptly is important.

Since SASSA does not tolerate fraud, please always submit accurate information.

Since SASSA sends alerts and updates to the address you provided in the application, you must keep the SASSA informed in any of these situations to avoid any disruption or suspension of your funding. Your funds may be suspended if you update your address or contact information without telling the SASSA since they won’t be able to contact you.

Sassa Care Dependency Grant review

Based on the income you reported when submitting your application, SASSA retains the right to review your award. The purpose of the evaluations is to make sure that you continue to meet the grant’s means test requirements and that nothing has changed in your situation. Additionally, it’s to make sure you’re still alive. You should constantly keep your application updated whenever your circumstances change, as this will facilitate the evaluation process.

Before the three-month review period or the deadline to submit your life certificate (documentation that you are still alive), SASSA will provide you written notice. The review’s date and place will also be specified in the written notification.

If you get your grant through a bank, organization, or agent, you have to send the life certificate to the SASSA headquarters every year. SASSA representatives will come to your home to review if you are bedridden. You will receive a compliance receipt upon completion of the review.

Upon the expiration of their refugee status, the review procedure for applicants will begin.

Lapsing of the Care Dependency Grant 2024

One of the following events will result in the lapse of your care dependence grant:

In the sad event that the child dies, the grant will expire on the final day of the month in which they were killed.
When the child is admitted to a state institution, the stipend will end at the beginning of the seventh month.
For three months in a row, the child’s primary caregiver or the beneficiary failed to pick up the grant payments.
while the youngster is not in the nation.
The child may be eligible for the disability award after turning 18 on the last day of the month when they turn 18.

If you have queries contact SASSA

If you have any other queries related to the Sassa care dependency grant 2024 you can contact sassa through the given channels

Emailing the query to the Sassa head office

[email protected]

Calling the sassa head office

012 400 2322

By visiting sassa regional offices

Dialing the sassa toll-free helpline

0800 60 10 11