Benefits navigator

Find your possible veterans' benefit pathways

Enter service history and family details. Only the questions relevant to your circumstances appear. Results update as you enter information and explain the law, evidence and calculations behind each reference.

Preliminary screening, not an application or award. Recognised service, dates, means, disability and dependency require official verification. We do not store your answers, calculate a guaranteed payable amount or add separate benefit programmes together.

Step 1 · Identity and service

Your service profile

Who is applying?

Applicant date of birth

Veteran's service commencement date

Veteran's discharge date

Military force / unit

Military organisation category

Discharge status

Military training completed?

Veteran recognised on DMV database?

Applicant resides in South Africa?

Marital status

Service dates and unit help build an evidence checklist, but do not automatically verify a person's military-veteran status. A spouse's or dependant's rights are assessed separately.

Step 2 · Family

Spouse and dependants

Do you have dependants to assess?

Step 3 · Conditional pension means assessment

Income and assets

The published pension regulations link the means assessment to the older-persons grant. These inputs only screen relevant thresholds; GPAA decides assessed amounts and exclusions.

Gross annual assessable income (R)

Total assessable assets (R)

Other monthly pension received (R)

Monthly state pension or social grant received (R)

Currently employed and contributing to a pension fund?

Withdrew state pension contributions on leaving state employment?

Currently serving in the SANDF Reserve Force?

Specific disqualifying conviction under regulation 3(4)?

Live result

Likely pathways, not guaranteed entitlements

Enter your profile to begin.

Sources, assumptions and calculation footnotes

What happens next?

Keep copies of identity documents, certified service information, unit details, discharge documentation, any marriage/death/birth records, financial evidence, full-time-study evidence and relevant medical assessments. The official decision and any award are made by DMV/GPAA.

Official GPAA military veterans pension guidance · ProtectZA legal wiki