Each taxpayer would need to contribute 1.5 times the value of the SRD grant to balance the budget. The grant expansion proposed in the DSD paper would see the average taxpayer paying an additional R6 800 per year, says the author. Image: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Department of Social Development (DSD) launched a modelling report on basic income support in South Africa on Tuesday.
Empirical work on the issue of transfers is very important for informing public debate on the policy options for addressing poverty, inequality and unemployment.
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