BREAKING
It pains me to have to tweet this thread on Youth Day. I have reliable information that despite government undertakings that SRDGrant payments will be paid this week, back payment of April & May Grants will not occur this month😡:
👉April/May payments will only start in
It pains me to have to tweet this thread on Youth Day. I have reliable information that despite government undertakings that SRDGrant payments will be paid this week, back payment of April & May Grants will not occur this month😡:
👉April/May payments will only start in
https://twitter.com/NeilColemanSA/status/1536274372054458370
July
👉June payments will at best start next week
👉The only payments being made this week are outstanding payments from August- Nov 2021.
This means over 8 million poor S Africans will have waited for up to 4 months to receive April grants; & over 10 million applicants up to 3
👉June payments will at best start next week
👉The only payments being made this week are outstanding payments from August- Nov 2021.
This means over 8 million poor S Africans will have waited for up to 4 months to receive April grants; & over 10 million applicants up to 3
months to receive May grants! This is totally scandalous when people who have close to zero income are depending on the #R350 grant to fight hunger. One month's delay can be a disaster. Up to 4 months is a catastrophe!
This is a result of government not having put the necessary
This is a result of government not having put the necessary
systems in place before they changed the regulations. Now poor people are having to pay the price for this failure. This is unacceptable.
President @CyrilRamaphosa needs to step in, and honour the government's commitment to pay the grants now.
This can be done through:
President @CyrilRamaphosa needs to step in, and honour the government's commitment to pay the grants now.
This can be done through:
👉an emergency condonation of all April-May applications ie payment based on declarations people have made
👉any fraudulent claims can be dealt with in due course (despite Ministers' statements the grants have been one gov.t programme freest of fraud- only 0,2% of applications)
👉any fraudulent claims can be dealt with in due course (despite Ministers' statements the grants have been one gov.t programme freest of fraud- only 0,2% of applications)
👉if necessary an emergency amendment should be made to the Regulations to facilitate this intervention.
Dedicated #SASSA officials are working overtime to resolve a crisis not of their own making. But the people we need to focus on are the desperate S Africans facing hunger,
Dedicated #SASSA officials are working overtime to resolve a crisis not of their own making. But the people we need to focus on are the desperate S Africans facing hunger,
soaring unemployment, rising food & fuel prices.
On #YouthDay2022 we should remember that a large portion of SRD Grant applicants is young:
Around 44% or 4,639 million of the 10,6 million applicants in May 2022 were youth under the age of 30. Further, evidence shows income
On #YouthDay2022 we should remember that a large portion of SRD Grant applicants is young:
Around 44% or 4,639 million of the 10,6 million applicants in May 2022 were youth under the age of 30. Further, evidence shows income
transfers encourage participation in economic activity, job seeking, & have many social benefits. The success of SRD Grants (albeit set at too low a level) is well established by research;if gov.t doesn't fix this mess it will be seriously shooting itself in the foot. Just do it!
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