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SRD grant expansion could cost extra R93.5bn annually, Treasury warns
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Kabelo Khumalo
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The South African National Treasury is challenging a high court ruling that would force an expansion of the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant. Treasury officials argue that the expansion is fiscally unaffordable and was never intended to be a permanent social welfare feature.
The National Treasury will tell the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) later in August that any further increase in the Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant would be unaffordable and that the assistance was never intended to become a permanent feature of South Africa’s social safety net.
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