SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025 to be paid out this week

Here’s everything you need to know about the SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025, which will be paid out on Thursday, 5 June. Each month, the government allocates billions from taxpayer funds to support financially struggling parents in South Africa.

Despite earlier uncertainty surrounding the Finance Minister’s 2025 budget, the government has upheld April’s above-inflation grant increases.

As a result, the government spends more on paying out SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025 than any other category. For instance, while the R560 Child Support Grant may seem small, the state pays it monthly to about 14 million beneficiaries. The Childcare category also includes Foster Care and Child Dependency grants, but more on those shortly.

SASSA CHILDREN’S GRANTS FOR JUNE 2025

If you’re unfamiliar with how SASSA divides the Children’s grants for June 2025, here’s what you should know. The South African Social Security Agency manages all child-related social grants. However, you can only claim one type of grant at a time, and if you’re married, only one parent may claim a grant for each child. There’s no limit to the number of children you can apply for.

• SASSA Childcare pays R560 per month.
• SASSA Care Dependency pays R2 310 per month to those with disability under 18.
• SASSA Foster Care for R1 250 to a court-appointed foster parent.

FUTURE PROOFING CHILD GRANTS

Better still, the Department of Social Development (DSD) has been imploring young mothers with newborns to make their SASSA applications as soon as possible. It says parents are waiting too long before getting their children onto critical social welfare. As such, we calculated that if a mother puts a newborn onto SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025, that child will earn the household roughly R155 500 in government funds. Of course, we can only guess at the annual grant increases. But this conservatively factors in estimated annual grant increases like the 5.7% enjoyed back in April 2025.

However, to qualify for any childcare grant, you do have to pass the following means test (there is no asset portion, like Older Person grants):

• Earn less than R8 800 per month if married (R105 600 annually).
• Earn less than R4 400 per month if single (R52 800 annually).

Of course, your child must be under the age of 18. And another SASSA rule is you cannot receive more than one grant at same time (like Disability or Older Persons, for example). Applications can take up to three months to be processed however, you will be back-paid to the date of your initial application. If you are denied a Children’s grant, you have 90 days to appeal through the DSD.

HOW TO APPLY A NEWBORN’S ID

First of all, before you worry about SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025, you must register your child with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) eHome portal. Many parents are not getting their newborn’s unabridged birth certificate and identification document early enough, says government. Until they have these, they are not eligible to be loaded onto the SASSA Childcare system.

After you have been through DHA eHome, you can make an appointment on the SASSA online portal, before having an in-person meeting with SASSA. Be sure to bring the following documents with you to the appointment:

• Valid identity documents of you and your spouse (if married).
• Official birth certificate and ID of the child you’re applying for support for.
• Proof of marital status (via a marriage, birth or death certificate of your spouse).
• Proof of income (both you and your spouse).
• An approved three-month bank statement (no more than three-months old).
• Proof of address (a utility statement with your name on it that’s not more the three-months old).

SASSA Foster Child grants only go to court-approved foster parents. Likewise, Childcare Dependency grants only go to children who have received the necessary disability approvals from a government doctor.

CONTACT SASSA

For application or payment queries you can contact SASSA directly here:

• SASSA Toll-Free Call: 0800 60 10 11
• SASSA Head Office: 012 400 2322
• Email SASSA: grantenquiries@sassa.gov.za