The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has commenced with April 2025 social grant payments. Millions of people living in the country will receive grant payments during April.
Sassa distributes over 18 million permanent grant payments, including the Older Persons pension grant, Disability grant, War Veterans grant, Care Dependency grant, Foster Child grant, Child Support grant, Child Support grant Top-Up and Grant-in-aid. This is in addition to the approximately 8 million individuals who receive the temporary Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.
Consistent with Sassa’s grant payment policy, older persons' grant beneficiaries will be paid first.
Grants payments for disability grant beneficiaries and children's grant beneficiaries will be paid over the next couple of days.
Sassa Grant Payment Dates April 2025
- Older persons - 2 April 2025
- Disability Grants - 3 April 2025
- Children's grants – 4 April 2025
Sassa Grants Increased For April 2025
During the annual Budget Speech Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the 2025 Sassa grant increases.
The first round of Sassa grant increases will be implemented in April, with several grants set to increase later in the year. April 2025 Sassa Grant Payments Here are the Sassa grant increases for April 2025
With the Sassa increase in place, Sassa grant payments for April and the coming months will be:
- Old person Grant- R2310
- Older Persons Grant (over 75) - R2330
- War Veterans grant - R2330
- Disability grant - R2310
- Foster care grant - R1250
- Care dependency grant - R2310
- Child support grant - R560
- Child support grant top-up - CSG + R280
- The grant-in-aid - R560
There has been no increase for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. April 2025 SRD grant payments will remain at R370.
