The department of social development says that anyone who receives R350 in financial support from a family member will be excluded from the social relief of distress grant this time around, as it aims to target the poorest of the poor. | Fin24
Elderly grant recipients living in Alexandra township waiting for their social grant payouts. The Department of Social Development told Parliament that it only budgeted for 10.5 million beneficiaries for the Social Relief of Distress grant.
The department of social development says that anyone who receives R350 in financial support from a family member will be excluded from the social relief of distress grant this time around, as it aims to target the poorest of the poor. The R350 SRD grant introduced at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 was extended to March of 2023 in February by President Cyril Ramaphosa. It was introduced to assist the indigent and unemployed in coping with the economic impact of the Covid-19 national lockdown.
"The new iteration will test everybody against a predetermined threshold. Given the limited budget, for the new iteration this will be set at R350, equivalent to the value of the grant. However, it will be reviewed if the 10.5 million target is not achieved."Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu said as"inadequate" as the R350 grant might be in the face of rising expenses, the grant's popularity showed that it helped many suffering households.
"The department will thus be providing the grant to less people in the third iteration than what it did in the second iteration." The written submission said once the concurrence was obtained from Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, Sassa entered into an interim agreement with a few banks to begin the process for means-testing.
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