Great news for social grant recipients: their monthly payments will be increased beginning April 1, 2023. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana made this announcement during his National Budget speech at Cape Town City Hall on Wednesday, February 23, 2023. In 2022, the Department of Social Development received the highest budget allocation to provide social relief to …
Enoch Godongwana, the South African Minister of Finance, just said that the government will keep giving out Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grants until March 31, 2024. The grant was made available in 2020 to help poor families get through the pandemic. This move hurts the already tight public finances of the country, since …
Yes, they do, but only permanent residents, refugees, asylum seekers, or citizens of Lesotho, Angola, or Zimbabwe who have special permits and are on the Home Affairs database. These people should also meet the other requirements for eligibility, which are: between 18 and 60 years old;Not working; not getting any money from the government for …
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Over 12 million people applied for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant in August 2022, which is when the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) received a large number of applications for the program. However, not every single one of these applications will be granted permission to be paid. Applicants who have had their …
During the period beginning on April 1, 2022 and ending on September 30, 2022, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) received 981,562 grant applications, with 887,628 of those applications being granted. During this time period, around nine percent of the total number of grant applications were denied. Following the passage and subsequent implementation of …
A universal basic income guarantee (UBIG) is a policy that would provide a regular bank deposit or grant to all individuals within a specific age range, regardless of their income or employment status. This transfer or grant could take the form of either cash or goods. This stands in contrast to the targeted basic income, …
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The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced that it is on track to disburse social grant payments for January 2023 on the 3rd of January. The grants for older persons will be paid first, followed by the grants for people with disabilities on the 4th of January, and the grants for child support …
Older persons grant will be paid from Tuesday 03 January 2023 Disability grants will be paid from Wednesday the 4th January 2023 All other grants will be paid from Thursday 5th January 2023
The South African government wishes to assist more unemployed people. The Department of Social Development is investigating ways to provide a basic income grant to vulnerable adults without negatively impacting the country’s economy. To accomplish this, they convened an expert panel to investigate the economic and societal effects of a basic income grant. The panel …
The Department of Social Development (DSD) in South Africa has formed a panel of experts to investigate whether a permanent basic income support (BIS) grant would be economically viable. Last Tuesday, the panel released its second report on the subject, which examined the various economic, fiscal, and social implications of making the Social Relief of …
