January 2025 SASSA Payment Schedule: Key Dates for Grant Recipients
When to Collect Your SASSA Payments: What You Need to Know for January 2025
As a grant recipient are you desperate to know your SASSA payment dates for January 2025?
That’s because you need to know when your money will be available so that you know how much you can spend on food and other necessities.
So imagine waking up on Monday morning and expecting your grant payment only to find that you need to wait longer.
That could cause all kinds of problems for you, so it’s important to know when SASSA makes the social grant payments each month to ensure you get your money on time.
Therefore, whether you get an old age pension, a disability grant, or a child support grant, you need to know your payment dates to help you plan your month better.
Below, you can see all the January 2025 SASSA payment dates, broken down by grant type.
SASSA Old Persons, Child Support & Disability Grant Payment Dates
| Month | Group | Date |
|---|---|---|
| January 2025 | Old Age Grant Payment Date | Friday 3rd January |
| January 2025 | Disability Grants | Monday 6th January |
| January 2025 | Child Support Grants | Tuesday 7th January |
| January 2025 | Other SASSA Social Grants | From 7th to 31st January |
| January 2025 | SASSA R350 Grants | SRD Grant Payments will be processed from the 25th to 31st January 2025 – Find Out Where To Get Your SASSA R350 Grant Payments here |
For SRD beneficiaries, go here to do your SASSA status check for 350 payment dates
SASSA Payment Dates for 2025 for Foster Child, Care Dependency, and War Veteran’s Grants
SASSA payments dates for the following grants:
- Foster Child Grant
Tuesday 7th January 2025. - Care Dependency Grant
From 7th January 2025 - War Veteran’s Grant
From 7th January 2025
All of the above grants will be paid on 7th January 2025
Please note that grant payments can take up to three days to reflect in your bank account, especially for different banks, and if the payment was made just before a weekend.
Please Note that for the SRD R370 Grant, SASSA will be paid from 25th January, 2025.
Beneficiaries registered to receive the R350 SRD grant can see where to collect their payment here once they have been notified by SMS.
If you aren’t sure whether you are registered to receive your grant payment, you should do your SASSA Payment Status Check now for an immediate response.
How Much is SASSA Payment
- SASSA Old Persons Grant: R2,090
- Old Age Grant (75 years and older): R2,110
- Disability Grant: R2,090
- War Veterans Grant: R2,090
- Child Support Grant: R510 per child
- Child Support Grant (Top-up): R510 + R250
- Care Dependency Grant: R2,090
- Foster Care Grant: R1,180 per child
- Grant-In-Aid: R510
- Social Relief of Distress Grant: R370
Collecting SASSA Payments
When it comes to collecting your money on the correct SASSA payments dates, please remember that you do not have to collect your grant payment on the actual grant date as published above.
SASSA assures grant recipients that there is no requirement to withdraw their grant payment as soon as the funds are made available as the money will remain in the beneficiary’s account.
Whilst it’s understandable that many beneficiaries are under extreme pressure to get their money and cannot wait another day, for those who can wait it’s better not to rush to collect your grant payments immediately.
So if you can wait a day or so, below are two reasons not to rush to get your SASSA payments.
2 Reasons Not to Collect Your Grants on the Published SASSA Payments Dates
- Avoid long queues:
Even though your payment is ready to collect you can avoid long queues at the SASSA payment points.
This will save you wasting time, sometimes a whole day, to get your payment. - Your grant money won’t disappear:
Your money will remain in your account until you withdraw it.
So you do not have to worry about it disappearing from your account if you don’t go to collect it on the day it becomes available. - You can also collect your money from the Safe Collection Points as explained below.
- Avoid long queues:
These reasons will hopefully give you peace of mind and make the collecting of your grant much less stressful than going on the exact grant payment dates.
For more information on SASSA Grant Payments and to get access to all SASSA forms click here.
PS. If you haven’t been paid, or your application has been denied, you can appeal this decision with SASSA.
Go here to find out how to submit your SASSA Appeal
Guide to Safe SASSA Grant Collection Points
Safe places where SASSA beneficiaries can collect their grants every month:
- Retail Outlets:
Beneficiaries can collect their grants at several retailers across the country.
These include:
– Pick n Pay
– Shoprite
– Boxer
– U-Save
– Checkers
– Selected OK Food stores
– Usave stores - Bank ATMs and Post Bank (at the Post Office):
Beneficiaries can also collect their grants from bank ATMs and the Post Bank at the Post Office. - Mobile Cash Pay Points:
You can go to any of the mobile cash pay points that have been made available for grant beneficiaries to collect their money. - SASSA Pay Points:
You can also collect from SASSA pay points which can be found in rural areas where access to other collection points is difficult.
And these pay points are safe for beneficiaries to go to and are often guarded during grant distribution days to endure your safety – when you carry cash there’s always a risk of being robbed. - Bank Payments (EFT):
If you have a bank account this is one of the most efficient ways of getting your grant payments as the money will be paid directly into your account which you can access anytime you need. - Spaza Shops:
SASSA is working with spaza shops to use as payment points so that your grant payments can be collected easily and more accessible at the local level.
As mentioned above, remember that you do not need to collect your grant on the day it becomes available as the money will remain on your card until you decide to use it – it won’t disappear.
Another useful tip is to use your SASSA cards for purchases as it reduces the cost for both Postbank and SASSA, and reduces the risk of you being robbed as you won’t be carrying around cash.
SASSA Contact Information for R350 Grants
If you have any queries regarding your SASSA Grant Payments Dates, you can use any of SASSA’s contact details below to get clarity