Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says the SA Social Security Agency is working on a plan to help those receiving the R350 social relief distress grant find work.
Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says the SA Social Security Agency is working on a plan to help those receiving the R350 social relief distress grant find work.The red berets asked “what measures of intervention will her department take to accommodate the more than 500,000 people that will be excluded from the SRD due to budget constraints?” budget that can only accommodate 10.5-million SRD beneficiaries until the end of March next year.
“Through this programme, the department and its entities, working development agencies, provides skills development projects that have a potential to generate income and create employment opportunities,” she said. “We were the committee that made it possible to provide our people during lockdown with R350 as an interim measure for their sustainability. We realised it was possible to deal beyond that and deal with basic income grants.
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