LETTER: Bite the grant bullet

Jonny Steinberg’s excellent article refers (“Welfare cannot just be for the frail as in the 1960s”, August 12). A welfare grant to the adult unemployed at a level we as a country could just manage (probably less than R500/month) would be too low to create dependency on the state — a critique often made. But it would aid survival and some level of dignity. It is a bullet we must bite.

Anthony Still
Waverley

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