SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025 payout this WEEK

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Here’s all you need to know about SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025, paying out this week on Thursday 5 June 2025. Every month, billions in social welfare is set aside from taxpayer funds to support financially distressed parents in South Africa. And even though there was some uncertainty over Finance Minister’s 2025 budget, the good news is April’s above-inflation grant increases have not been reversed.

As such, SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025 are the most expensive for the government to payout. For example, R560 for Child Support may not sound like a lot, but it’s paid each month to roughly 14-million beneficiaries. There are also Foster Care and Child Dependency grants under the Childcare banner. But more about those later…

SASSA CHILDREN’S GRANTS FOR JUNE 2025

If you are unfamiliar with how the SASSA Children’s grants for June 2025 are divided up, here’s what you need to know. The South African Social Security Agency administers all child-related social grants. However, you may only claim one grant at a time. And only one parent (if married) may claim a grant per child. There is no limit on how many children you may apply on behalf of though.

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

SASSA is imploring parents to register with Home Affairs and get their children support from day one. Image: SASSA

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.