Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable - Unicef

Government-funded programmes and services for vulnerable children in SA
Table 3.1 Programme/service map: Department of Social Development
Comprehensive social security
Programme/
services
Description of the
programmes/actual
service provided
Targeted beneficiaries/
qualifying criteria/how to
obtain the service
Delivery mechanism/
service providers
Child
support grant
(CSG) i
A cash transfer of R250
per month paid to
the qualifying primary
caregiver for every
child born on or after
1 October 1994 to
supplement household
income (CASE 2008) ii
The sum of R250 iii per
month is the amount
paid as from 1 April
2010. This amount will
in all likelihood increase
in 2011 as the grant
amounts are generally
increased at the start of
each new financial year
to take inflation into
account.
Targeted beneficiaries
The caregivers of
children born on or
after 1 October 1994 iv
living in poverty
Qualifying criteria
must have been born
on or after 1 October
1994.
primary caregiver v
must fall below the
means test income
threshold. vi
If the caregiver
is unmarried, the
caregiver’s annual
income must be less
than 10 times the
annual grant amount.
If the caregiver is
married, then the joint
annual income of the
spouses must, when
divided by two, be
less than 10 times the
annual grant amount.
In practice, in 2010,
this amounts to an
income of less than
R2 500 per month for
single caregivers and
R5 000 per month for
married caregivers.
not the biological
or adopted children
of the caregiver, the
caregiver may receive
a grant for a
The South African
Social Security Agency
(SASSA)
Thusong centres
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