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Lindiwe Zulu, the minister of social development, has suggested increasing the income threshold for SRD applicants from R350 to R624. Feedback from the general public must be submitted by July 29.
Ntombi Kwaza, 34, has not received money since the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) approved her R350 grant applications a few months ago. The Department of Social Development has suggested increasing the monthly income criterion for Social Relief of Distress (SRD) payments from R350 to R624 for Kwaza and hundreds of others like her.
When Kwaza filed for the SRD grant in August and November 2021, she claims SASSA “detected a source of income” because she is from Klerksdorp in the North West province. She appealed this judgment, and in May of this year she discovered that all four months had been granted.
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She is still waiting for payments for accepted appeals from the prior year despite SASSA’s announcement that they would be made in June. They’re torturing us, I say. I even danced when they told me I had been accepted. I simply feel like giving up right now,” she admitted.
Her boyfriend, three children, two younger siblings who are still in high school, and Kwaza all reside with her. She has been unemployed for four years. She relies on the R480 in child support handouts for her 10-year-old and 7-month-old kids.
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