Minister says 5-million applications for the special Covid-19 grant have been paid
Minister of social development Lindiwe Zulu. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
Zulu noted that of the 7.8-million applications received for the special Covid-19 social relief of distress grant of R350 per month for six months to end-October, a total of 5-million had been paid. These were those who were found to be eligible in terms of the criteria and whose information had been verified by government databases.
She pointed out that the Covid-19 social relief stimulus package had no equivalent in SA’s history both in terms of its focus on the unemployed and its scale. The special Covid-19 grant “has uncovered the pitfalls of disjointedness and questionable integrity of the state’s databases”. “After the apology, the honourable minister must do the honourable thing and vacate her position as the minister of social development,” she said.
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