A Foster Care Grant is a grant intended to provide for the basic needs of foster children who have been placed in the care of foster parents by a Children’s Court. The Foster Care Grant is paid to foster parents for children between the ages of 0 and 18 years. An extension order for foster care can be given until the age of 21 years if the child is still at school.

(See: Foster Care)

Usually a grant is for 2 years but a social worker can extend the grant depending on the circumstances, subject to a review by a social worker or a magistrate through a Children’s Court (which will be valid until 2017).

A foster parent is responsible for ensuring that the child is fed, clothed, healthy, attending school and that the foster grant is used to benefit the child. SASSA officers must always be allowed to have access to the child.

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