primary · National Treasury / SAnews
Monthly per child (Budget)
R1,295 / month
From 2026-04-01
Budget Review: foster care from R1,250 to R1,295.
I am a foster parent · SASSA
Foster Child Grant
Paid to a foster parent with a court order. Not means-tested in the same way as Child Support.
R1,295 / month
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Who it is for
Foster parents with a valid children’s-court order.
Court-ordered state support. Not a private childcare policy.
Conditions
- Court order
- Valid foster-care order. The child must remain in the foster parent’s care.
- Means test
- No means test for the foster parent.
Primary source first. A disputed or stale figure stays visible. Hover a rand or dollar figure for four other currencies.
disputed · GroundUp
Monthly per child (aggregators)
R1,290 / month
From 2026-04-01
Several explainers round or list R1,290. Stored as a cross-check, not the Budget figure.
Cross-checks
- disagrees Everything you need to know about social grants Some independent pages list R1,290. Treasury/SAnews: R1,295. Treat R1,295 as the Budget amount until SASSA publishes otherwise.
- disagrees The Citizen — SASSA payment-date articles Citizen listed R1,250 — pre-April.
How to apply
SASSA with the court order. Social worker involvement.
Methodology
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Headline amounts are the National Treasury 2026 Budget figures from 1 April 2026. Cross-checks are stored on each grant. Sliding-scale means tests can pay less than the maximum. Change this row in Core SA and the Compass follows.
- Take the Budget Review amount as the maximum.
- Keep a cross-check (GroundUp, SASSA, news). If a page still lists the pre-April figure, mark it as disagreeing, do not overwrite the Budget amount.
- Means-test thresholds are aggregator figures unless SASSA publishes a table — labelled as such on the grant.
Where sources disagree
- noteThe Citizen Jul/Aug 2026 payment-date articles still listed pre-April amounts.
- noteFoster child: Budget R1,295 vs some explainers R1,290.