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President Cyril Ramaphosa: Additional Coronavirus COVID-19 economic and social relief measures
President Cyril Ramaphosa: Additional Coronavirus COVID-19 economic and social relief measures
President Cyril Ramaphosa: Additional Coronavirus COVID-19 economic and social relief measures
UIF, CF safety net intervention details
Social grant payments underway on Day 4 of lockdown
UIF, CF safety net intervention details
South Africa: Covid-19 grant: We can learn from Namibia
GroundUp (29.04.2020) Introducing the new “Covid-19 grant” announced by President Cyril Ramphosa will pose a huge challenge. But South Africa can learn from Namibia, which introduced an emergency grant at the beginning of April and within three weeks had paid out nearly 580,000 people. The Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant of R350 per month, together with the R500 per month supplement to each Child Support Grant (CSG) recipient, provides for the first time a social safety net for able-bodied working-age adults.
South Africa: Millions of jobless South Africans will now get a corona grant – what you need to know
businessinsider (22.04.2020)
- Unemployed South Africans will get R350 a month for the next six months the first benefit of its kind in the country.
- According to current data, some ten million South Africans could be entitled to the grant.
- But it won't be enough to prevent hunger - SA's food poverty line is R561 a month.
- The so-called Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant of R350 a month will be paid to individuals who are currently jobless and do not receive any other form of social grant or Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) payment.
South Africa: new “National Disaster Benefit”.
labourwise.co.za (09.04.2020) The Unemployment Insurance Fund said on Wednesday that the allocated National Disaster Benefit Fund would only pay workers whose salaries had been docked until the end of the lockdown.