2023-w571 - 28 March 2023

Altia Sthembile Hlongo to ask the Ms A S Hlongo

How will her department and/or the SA Social Security Agency administer, apply and implement the top-up amount in the case of caregivers of orphaned children who are beneficiaries of the child support grant?

Reply from the Ms A S Hlongo on 28 Mar 2023

The Child Support Grant Top Up (CSG Top Up) is targeted at two categories of children; they are:

  • Orphans in the care of relatives; and
  • Orphans in child-headed households in terms of s137 of the Children’s Act.

The CSG top up is not a new grant. Instead, it builds on the existing Child Support Grant (CSG), complementing it, by increasing the amount allocated to ...

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