Women with sons get more child support grants
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) recently released its September Social Assistance Report.
In the report, the agency divides grant beneficiaries by age and gender.
Women get more in child support than men.
But mothers of sons access the grant more than mothers of daughters.
Women with sons get more money from SASSA than women with daughters
SASSA pays out about R3.49 billion a month to women with sons.
According to the data, women account for 97.45% of Child Support Grant (CSG) beneficiaries.
Sons account for 50.14% of child support grant beneficiaries. Daughters make up the remaining 49.86%.
By the end of September, SASSA was paying out 12.3 million child support grants a month.
They paid R3.58 billion to boys and R3.56 billion to girls.
Mothers (or female guardians) received most of the money, accounting for 6.93 million recipients, while only 181 141 fathers (or male guardians) received the grants.
If women make up 97.45% of all recipients, women with sons get roughly R3.49 billion a month.
Women with daughters get R3.47 billion a month, R200 million less than women with sons.
Boys also made up most of the beneficiaries for the Care Development Grant, a R2 400 a month grant given to children with severe disabilities.
They account for 61.94% of the grant’s beneficiaries.
But just because women receive most of the child support grant doesn’t mean every beneficiary is a single mother.
SASSA only shares data about who receives the payment.
If SASSA pays the mother, she is the one added to the total.
However, the province with the most equal split between male and female recipients is the Free State, where men received 4.29% of child support grant payments.
The least equal province was Limpopo, where men received 1.36% of grant payments.
| Province | % of Men Receiving a Child Support Grant |
|---|---|
| Free State | 4.29% |
| Gauteng | 3.39% |
| Northern Cape | 3.04% |
| Eastern Cape | 2.74% |
| Mpumalanga | 2.52% |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 2.43% |
| North West | 2.08% |
| Western Cape | 2.04% |
| Limpopo | 1.36% |
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