The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) has rejected proposals from National Treasury to replace the R350 social distress relief grant (SRD) in South Africa with one or more new grants, which it says will exclude the poor and vulnerable from collecting it.
that the government was proposing to partially replace the SRD grant with a ‘jobseekers grant’ or ‘household grant’ for some, possibly in combination with a truncated version of a caregivers’ grant, while excluding other poor persons entirely.
In August, the Department of Social Development announced changes to how the SRD grant would be disbursed in South Africa. The IEJ, however, said that the proposals by Treasury, and the government’s focus on adding job-seeking conditions to grants, will ultimately exclude the people the grant is supposed to help.
It also rests on the “fundamentally patronising and moralistic” assumption that without job-seeking conditions, grants are likely to increase dependency and laziness, it said. The final proposal to fold in the SRD grant into a more limited ‘caregiver’s grant’ would only see the grant applying to those caring for children under two.
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