State can’t drop Covid grant without a back-up, says Godongwana
But the 2023/24 budget makes no provision for the extension of the grant beyond March next year
08 March 2023 - 21:23
The government is under “no illusion” that it can simply drop the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant without replacing it with something else, finance minister Enoch Godongwana said in the National Assembly on Wednesday night.
This was why, he added, the government is investigating a comprehensive system of social security, the adoption of which would involve trade-offs...
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