What we are building
A South African support finder: circumstances in, a short list of possible programmes out, followed by the documents, official route and known limits that matter.
About Subsidies.co.za
A free way to find support worth checking.
Subsidies.co.za brings fragmented South African grants, UIF benefits, study funding and municipal help into one simple starting point.
The short version
Independent information, not a government decision.
The finder first builds a shortlist. A separate detailed programme check can evaluate released rules and point people to the responsible authority. The service cannot approve an application, access a government record or guarantee support.
Who operates it
Subsidies.co.za is independently operated. It does not publish a personal name or legal-entity name. That is a deliberate public-identity limit and should be considered when deciding how much weight to give the service.
How it is funded
The service is currently free and non-commercial. There are no paid rankings, application fees, affiliate placements or commissions from a successful claim. If that changes, the relationship must be disclosed where it affects a recommendation.
What we cover
The four-question finder uses discovery matching across SASSA, UIF, study funding and municipal bill help. The rule library covers 30 routes: 9 SASSA and SRD routes, 7 UIF benefits and 14 municipalities. A check is paused when its official information needs clarification. Study funding has no released eligibility rule and remains discovery only. This is not yet a complete register of every South African support programme.
30 checks are temporarily paused. Their pages still show where to ask for help, but we will not use unverified information to decide whether you qualify.
Which checks are paused?
- Buffalo City Indigent Support
- Cape Town Indigent Support
- Ekurhuleni Indigent Support
- eThekwini Indigent Support
- Johannesburg Expanded Social Package
- Polokwane indigent support
- Mangaung Indigent Support
- Mkhondo indigent support
- City of Mbombela indigent support
- Nelson Mandela Bay Assistance to the Poor
- Tshwane Indigent Support
- Stellenbosch indigent support
- Overstrand indigent support
- George indigent support
- Care Dependency Grant
- Child Support Grant
- Disability Grant
- Emergency Social Relief of Distress
- Foster Child Grant
- Grant-in-Aid
- Older Person's Grant
- Social Relief of Distress Grant
- War Veteran's Grant
- UIF Adoption Benefit
- UIF Dependants Benefit
- UIF Illness Benefit
- UIF Maternity Benefit
- UIF Parental Benefit
- UIF Reduced Work Time Benefit
- UIF Unemployment Benefit
How answers are checked
Published rules keep official source links, retrieval dates, file fingerprints, review dates and regression examples. Missing or conflicting facts remain visible instead of being completed by an AI guess.
How to hold us accountable
Use the on-site report form if a date, amount, link or explanation looks wrong. A material error is checked against official evidence, corrected with the affected rule and retested before publication.
Report a problem →Important limit
Do not send an application to this website.
Never send an ID document, bank statement, medical record, password, PIN or OTP. Apply only through the official authority linked on the relevant programme page.