Official reply:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION 279 /2014
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
Date of publication on internal question paper: 07 March 2014
Internal question paper no: 05
279. Mr M Waters (DA) to ask the Minister of Social Development:
(a) What is the current backlog of foster care grant cases in each province
and (b) how many of these cases were finalised in each month of the
preceding 12 months? NW332E
Reply:
a) Current backlog of foster care grant cases in each province: (Note
that the numbers provided relate to new applications for foster care
child grants, not reviews)
Eastern Cape 10
Free State 21
Gauteng 90
KwaZulu-Natal 0
Limpopo 62
Mpumalanga 138
Northern Cape 23
North West 34
Western Cape 233
b) Number of new foster care grant cases finalized in each of the
preceding 12 months, per province:
Month |EC |FS |GP |KZN |LP |MP |NC |NW |WC |Total | |April |337 |134 |208
|519 |172 |103 |88 |159 |55 |1775 | |May |402 |108 |188 |599 |247 |116 |84
|152 |66 |1962 | |June |339 |83 |114 |437 |183 |180 |32 |87 |50 |1505 |
|July |310 |83 |150 |478 |104 |46 |176 |113 |74 |1534 | |August |408 |462
|711 |1570 |356 |262 |199 |544 |344 |4856 | |September |519 |403 |562 |1410
|325 |243 |179 |490 |352 |4483 | |October |349 |75 |141 |501 |181 |108 |49
|114 |61 |1579 | |November |292 |54 |96 |411 |137 |96 |41 |98 |34 |1259 |
|December |238 |68 |95 |327 |106 |56 |32 |47 |46 |1015 | |January |898 |213
|72 |220 |247 |47 |64 |291 |53 |2105 | |February |811 |133 |130 |358 |441
|98 |127 |262 |121 |2481 | |Total |4903 |1816 |2467 |6830 |2499 |1355 |1071
|2357 |1256 |24554 | |Source: Socpen new applications processed within 21
days report