The government’s new social relief of distress grant, which was established to protect unemployed, working-age people without any income from the worst economic ravages of the Covid-19 lockdown, appears to have had an ignominious start.
The acting director general of the Department of Social Development, Linton Mchunu, said Sassa had “started processing” 2.6 million of the five million applications it had received for the new grant by then. He said the department “appreciates there is a need to pay as quickly as possible”, but that efforts to properly verify applicants and “avoid leakage in the fiscus so that those who are not deserving don’t get the grant” had slowed the process.
Along with changes to the child support grant, the Covid-19 social relief of distress grant was designed to mitigate against the worst lockdown-induced economic shocks for impoverished households. Before South Africa went into lockdown, eight million people were living in food poverty and could not afford their basic nutritional requirements. More than half of them were children.
Indescribable mismanagement. The ANC once again prove themselves criminally inept. What a fiasco.
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