Sassa pays 26m grants every month.
In 1994, when South Africa became a democracy, the country paid grants for about 2.5 million people – mostly old age grants, disability grants, and state maintenance grants .
Since 1994, government spending on social grants has increased from R10.5 billion in 1994 to R232.7 billion – about 11% of the R21 trillion national budget – in 2022.As a percentage of South Africa’s gross domestic product , grant expenditure has increased over the years. Grant expenditure has had to increase with a growing population and to keep pace with inflation, while South Africa’s economy has grown very slowly.Data provided by UCT’s Centre for Social Science Research.
The World Bank’s most recent survey in 2014 found that 55% of the population was living below the national upper-bound poverty line of R992 a month, and 25% was living in food poverty. The World Bank now estimates that 63% of the population lives below the upper-middle-income country poverty line , an increase of 1.8 million people since before the Covid pandemic.
The child support grant was close to the food poverty line between 2006 and 2007. While the grant has contributed to reducing food poverty in children since it was introduced, a 2023 review of the grant by the Department of Social Development suggests that unless it is increased to meet at least the food poverty line, the grant will not be sufficient to keep reducing child poverty.
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