New grant may target unemployed people aged 19 to 59 years, govt says

New grant may target unemployed people aged 19 to 59 years, govt says

Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says her department wants to table a proposal on an income grant to cabinet this year.

The grant will target unemployed people aged between 19 and 59, she added.

It is estimated that around a fifth of South Africans still survive on less than R561 a month, the so-called food poverty line. South Africa could soon get an unemployment grant, Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu confirmed this week. During her department’s budget vote presentation in parliament on Tuesday , she said that a Basic Income Grant (BIG) proposal will […]

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