State raises income threshold for social relief of distress grant

The existing threshold was so low that the number of approved applications nearly halved

The income threshold for the R350 social relief of distress grant is to be raised from R350 a month to the food poverty line of R624 a month in terms of proposed amendments to regulations because so few people qualified for the grant when the lower threshold was applied...

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