Special GroundUp series on social grants
Most applicants have never had a job
Brief | 2 October 2024
The Unconditional Cash Transfer Project gives monthly cash transfers to 100 unemployed graduates
News | 30 September 2024
Department of Co-operative Governance reverses decision to end contracts of about 35,000 employees who also get old age grants
Brief | 17 September 2024
Members of Parliament criticise the agency for R316-million in overpayments
News | 12 September 2024
#PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice say regulations exclude many people who are eligible; government disagrees
News | 2 September 2024
Poverty rates are rising but fewer babies are getting the grant, a UCT study finds
News | 23 August 2024
Department of Co-operative Governance wants to end “double-dipping”
News | 20 August 2024
Applicants for grants urged to use the online system
Brief | 20 August 2024
Several offices closed on Tuesday
Brief | 14 August 2024
Social grant beneficiaries get up before dawn or sleep outside the office in Eerste River
News | 8 August 2024
Pilot programme rolled out to help recipients of the Social Relief of Distress grant to verify their identity
News | 30 July 2024
It is irrational to expect people who can’t afford food to have a smartphone and internet access
By Kelle Howson, Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker, Vayda Megannon and General Alfred Moyo
Opinion | 30 July 2024
Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
News | 26 July 2024
Plan is to slash time spent on paperwork
News | 25 July 2024
Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid
News | 26 June 2024
Biometric identification has been introduced to fight fraud, says agency
News | 19 June 2024