GROUNDUP: OP-ED: Covid-19: Ramaphosa’s plan is good, but the budget is insufficient

also reveals how receipt of a CSG exposes individual women to moral scrutiny and judgment by family members and neighbours.

The name of the new grant suggests that it is seen as an extension of the existing Social Relief of Distress programme. This existing programme is aimed at people in. Almost all awards take the form of food parcels or food vouchers, for a short period of time. The existing awards are reportedly used primarily to support destitute people while their applications for other grants are being processed .that in 2018-19, 444,000 awards were made at a total cost of R417-million, or 0.

No details have been provided on precisely who would be eligible for the new grant. The potential demand is enormous. The most recent available data on the labour market come from theconducted by Statistics South Africa in the 4th quarter of 2019. Analysis of the survey data suggests that, of the approximately 33 million men and women aged between 18 and 60 , 30% were unemployed, using the expanded definition of unemployment that includes “discouraged work-seekers”.

Another 8 million people aged 18-59 were “not economically active” in late 2019. These were working-age adults who were not working but said that they did not want work or were not available for work, perhaps because they were disabled or studying or fully-occupied in unpaid care work. The Quarterly Labour Force Survey data suggest that about one in four receive either a CSG or a Disability Grant. This leaves 6 million people without any social grant.

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