Ramaphosa steps up for the poor with grants extension
Government is looking at a replacement for the social relief of distress grant introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the president emphasised that it must be affordable and not come at the expense of service delivery
10 February 2022 - 20:53
UPDATED 10 February 2022 - 22:16
President Cyril Ramaphosa has come to the aid of SA’s desperately poor by extending the Covid-19 social relief of distress grant of R350 a month for unemployed adults for a year to end-March 2023.
The extension is estimated to cost the fiscus R50bn, expenditure made possible by the mineral resources boom that is expected to raise the 2021/2022 tax revenue target by R200bn...
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