Official reply:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION248/2012
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 17 February 2012
Internal question paper no: 02
248. Mr M Waters (DA) to ask the Minister of Social Development:
(1) How many (a) children receive Child Support Grants (CSG) and (b)
recipients of these grants have (i) one child, (ii) two children,
(iii) three children, (iv) four children, (v) five children, (vi) 6 â
10 children and (vii) more than 10 children receiving CSG;
(2) how many mothers are (a) 10 years and younger, (b) 11 â 14 years old,
(c) 15 â 18 years old, (d) 19 â 22 years old, (e) 23 â 30 years old,
(f) 31 â 40 years old and (g) older than 40 years;
(3) whether any action has been taken in conjunction with the Department
of Health to provide family planning education to parents of children
on CSG; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
(1) (a) 5,830,369 beneficiaries, received CSG in respect of 10,765,416
children as at 21 February 2012.
(b) Number of beneficiaries receiving CSG for their biological
children:
(i) 1 Child 2,738,113
(ii) 2 Children 1,656,343
(iii) 3 Children 702,179
(iv) 4 Children 244,364
(v) 5 Children 74,643
(vi) 6 -10 Children 24,224
(vii) 10+ Children 2
(2) In order to receive a Child Support Grant, a primary care giver must
be 16 years or older. The numbers given below refer to the age
of the primary care giver, not only biological mothers.
The breakdown of age of caregivers:
(a) none
(b) none
(c) 8,438
(d) 385,451
(e) 1,737,638
(f) 1,790,290
(g) 1,921,685
(3) SASSA has not initiated specific family planning interventions for
care givers receiving CSG. Since many of the care givers attend
primary health care clinics it is assumed that they would be exposed to
these programs at the clinics.