Records in the live release
9
Release 2026-11-13, 13 November 2026. Its fingerprint: 3a6ae032170030e6763e7a8cd0d2394be20b7e6cac2f688ab6f9485e1d7328ad (what that is).
Datasets·UM-326·Government and society·Early access
Social grant amounts, with history
The maximum a month of each social grant, from the Minister of Social Development's gazetted notices, each amount cited to its Gazette.
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What it holds
In more detail
The nine grants of the Social Assistance Act (older person's, 75 and older, war veteran's, disability, care dependency, foster child, child support and its top-up, grant-in-aid): each amount and the day it took effect, from the yearly notices in the Government Gazette, read from GPW's copies. Earlier years are added as their notices are read.
How far it reaches
The nine grants of the Social Assistance Act (older person's, 75 and older, war veteran's, disability, care dependency, foster child, child support and its top-up, grant-in-aid): the amounts from 2026-04-01 and the amounts in force before, as the notice print them (GG 54397 (2026-03-23)). Earlier years: GPW's online archive goes back to 2018; their notices are queued (scripts/datasets/w1b-gpw-queue.mjs).
How often it changes
Annual
The nightly GPW queue reads the year's Social Development and Regulation Gazettes from March; the Budget day drill (3.15) uses the gazetted notice, never the speech or SASSA's site.
Where the figures come from
Government Printing Works (Government Gazette).
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Measured accuracy
Not measured yet. How we measure it.
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Get it
Through the API
/v1/datasets/social-grants/records, as JSON, CSV or Excel, with filters and any past date. Fields and filters. It takes a key.
All of it at once (Parquet)
Being built. The list.
For data portals
Described in DCAT in /catalog.json and on this page.
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