The Department of Social Development plans to make a number of changes to South Africa’s grant system in the coming year – including a formal step towards a basic income grant.
The changes are outlined in the department’s annual performance plan for 2022/2023, which was published this week.
Basic income subsidy The serious impact of the pandemic on the economy and its ability to create jobs has raised new questions about the dependence on economic growth to tackle unemployment and poverty, reviving interest in the prospect of a basic income subsidy as another lever to tackle poverty and inequality, and […]
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