Everyone agrees that a basic income grant will help poor people, but more grants can even cause prices to increase, which will not help them.
Image: iStock President Cyril Ramaphosa hinted at instituting a Basic Income Grant (BIG) after calls for it in the latest ANC January 8th statement. The social relief of distress grant of R350 makes “a strong case for a permanent form of targeted income support grant for the unemployed within our fiscal constraints”, he said.
At the ANC’s national executive committee meeting at the end of January he said millions of working age adults in South […]
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