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Department of Social Development / SASSA
Extended — R370/month through 31 Mar 2027The 2026 Budget keeps the SRD grant at R370 per month and provides an additional R36.4 billion to extend payments until 31 March 2027. A January 2025 High Court judgment concerning SRD regulations was granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal in March 2025; this tracker does not present the challenged orders as a final appeal outcome.
Additional 2026/27 allocation
R36.4bn
2026 Budget extension to 31 March 2027
Financial measure boundary
R36.4 billion is the additional 2026/27 allocation reported for extending SRD payments. It is an appropriation/allocation measure, not a statement that R36.4 billion has already been paid to beneficiaries.
Latest paid / expenditure evidence
Current paid total not located
The checked 2026 official sources establish the R36.4bn additional allocation, R370 monthly amount and extension through 31 March 2027. F2 did not locate a current 2026/27 aggregate actually-paid total and does not derive one from the allocation.
SAnews / Department of Social Development 2026 source check →Latest cited context
Budget 2026: SRD remains R370 per month and receives an additional R36.4bn to extend payments until 31 March 2027.
National Treasury — Budget 2026 →Odyssey editorial accountability question
What do current official payment statistics show about approvals, payments and unsuccessful applications during the 2026/27 extension?
Source-dated timeline — 3 events
2025-01-23 · court
High Court issues SRD regulation judgment
The Gauteng High Court issued declaratory and remedial orders concerning several SRD regulations and payment practices.
SAFLII — IEJ and Another v Minister of Social Development and Others →2025-03-18 · court
Leave to appeal granted to the Supreme Court of Appeal
The High Court granted the respondents leave to appeal the January 2025 judgment to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
SAFLII — leave to appeal judgment →2026-02-25 · budget
Budget extends SRD to 31 March 2027
Additional allocation: R36.4bn
Budget 2026 reports an additional R36.4bn allocation and keeps the monthly grant amount at R370.
National Treasury Budget 2026 →Cited source anchors
The five tracked programmes use different accounting bases. Fund envelopes, annual or additional allocations, multi-instrument package values, approvals and historical payments are not interchangeable and are not added into a combined money total.
Status labels are source-dated Odyssey tracker snapshots. They are not live accounting, audit or programme-completion determinations.
Investigation, preservation, recovery and court references describe the cited proceeding only. They do not establish criminal or civil liability beyond the source record.
This is a selected five-programme tracker, not an exhaustive account of South African public spending or all relief and employment programmes.
Other tracked programmes