Sources, review and corrections
The product keeps official source material, structured screening rules and plain-language explanations separate so a change can be found, reviewed and tested.
The local SA Law evidence library contains 41,898 documents. Released screening-rule evidence keeps its official URL, retrieval date and archived file fingerprint. Wider discovery records keep checked official links and dates; if an official server blocks the archive copy, the affected page carries a provenance hold instead of claiming a fingerprint.
Programme conditions, uncertainty, values, evidence and official channels are stored as versioned data. Important unknowns remain unknown; they are never completed by AI.
Rules have effective and review dates. A live student-funding call becomes due for review after 7 days and every other funding record after 30 days. Conflicting or sensitive material stays quarantined until the source problem is resolved.
The current release preserves 30 rules and 188 frozen policy regression examples. These include the exact threshold and nearest opposite value for every numeric comparison, plus positive, decisive-failure and missing-fact cases. Separate safety tests ensure a paused rule cannot return a definite screening result. Automated tests are evidence controls, not legal certification.
Each indexable answer must have one clear search purpose, a direct answer, visible dates, contextual internal links and official citations. Thin keyword variants consolidate into the useful page.
When an official source changes, the affected rule and answer are reviewed together. Material conflicts are disclosed or removed from screening until the correction passes the evidence and regression checks.
Coverage today
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.
The municipal catalogue covers all 257 municipalities for discovery work. Detailed household checks are released for all 8 metros plus Polokwane, City of Mbombela, Mkhondo, George, Overstrand and Stellenbosch. Those 14 municipalities contain 44.19% of South Africa's Census 2022 population; that is jurisdiction coverage, not a claim that every resident qualifies.
Check the Stats SA population source ↗Capability labels
Each public result must say what the product actually did. These labels are release requirements, not marketing language.
A detailed programme check evaluated the answers against a released structured rule and returned a preliminary match state. The authority still decides the application.
The answers narrowed a reviewed catalogue to routes worth exploring. No eligibility rule was evaluated. The four-question finder and student-funding search use this mode.
A guide explains an official process or published status wording. It does not assess the visitor or access a government record.
The website does not search the full 2 GB legal database for every visitor. It runs a small, dated release of structured rules so the result is fast and reproducible. Review depth is recorded per rule; the four local-municipality additions received two technical reviews, while older rules retain their published review records. No independent legal, language, accessibility or privacy certification is claimed. A passing rule test is not legal certification, and the final decision belongs to SASSA, UIF, NSFAS or the relevant municipality. Public indexing was enabled on 31 August 2026.
See dated programme pages