Social grants to increase during October - The department of social development announced it would ‘top up’ the social relief of distress grant to R624 and child support grant to R720 a month
. The adjustment allowed for more people to receive the monthly benefit because the department experienced a lower than 50% up-take of the budgeted R44-billion.
As of October 2022, nearly 7.5 million people have received the social relief of distress grant monthly, but the department has committed to supporting 10.5 million applicants who qualified for the grant. “We note that it is in the interest of the income-less, unemployable and vulnerable sections of our population for the implementation of the Covid-19 SRD to improve”.At the start of October 2022, the department had called on only caregivers of orphaned children to apply for the Child Support Grant Top-up at their nearest South African Social Security Agency offices.
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