The latest adjusted national poverty lines make a mockery of the R460 child support grant
The latest adjusted national poverty lines make a mockery of the R460 child support grant, which is way below the poverty line, says one researcher. According to Stats SA, each South African needs at least R624 a month to afford the minimum amount of food required to survive every day.
Stats SA found that the upper-bound poverty line was R1 335 per person per month. This refers to the food poverty line plus the average amount derived from non-food items of households whose food expenditure is equal to the food poverty line.Julie Smith, a researcher at the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group, said that the adjusted NPLs were an indictment on government, especially considering that the child support grant was only R460 per month.
Smith said that the R350 Covid-19 social relief grant needed to be automatically extended to mothers to offset the high food prices.
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