The Social Relief of Distress grant is to resume next week and beneficiaries to get backpay for the months they weren't paid out: President Cyril Ramaphosa. R350 grants
South Africa will resume payment of a Covid-19 grant after millions of people who rely on the stipend went unpaid for two months. The so-called Social Relief of Distress, or SRD grant, wasn’t remitted in April and May after the government changed the criteria for the payments, according to the Johannesburg-based Institute for Economic Justice. More than 10 million beneficiaries of the stipend have been affected, it said in a statement this week.
Before the Covid-19 stipend, more than 18 million people, or almost a third of the population, received state aid. One of the obstacles to payments has been difficulties faced by the state-owned South African Post Office in rendering services to grant beneficiaries, according to the Black Sash, a Johannesburg-based advocacy group. Problems encountered by the SAPO included cash shortages, non-payment of staff and the closure of post offices.
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