Social grant recipients will heave sighs of relief at the announcement that allocations will from April mostly increase by above inflation rates.
Delivering the 2022 Budget Speech in Parliament on Wednesday, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said the Department of Social Development will receive the largest allocation of R58.6 billion over the medium term.
Also with a 5% increase, care dependency will rise from R1,890 to R1,985 . With a 1.9% increment, the foster care grant will see the lowest adjustment, rising from the current R1,050 to R1,070 . A total of R1.6 billion in the two outer years to initiate a new extended child support grant for double orphans, in order to encourage the care of orphans within families rather than foster care.
The department said the numbers exclude the 10.5 million beneficiaries of the special COVID‐19 social relief of distress grant in 2022/23.
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