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Here’s how many people receive a SASSA grant

25% of the population received a grant in 2006. Today, it is about 41%.

Over the past few weeks, we have run a short series looking back at 20 years of SASSA. We’ve looked at the Covid SRD grant, the old age grant, and government spending on social grants. This week, we look at how the number of social grant recipients has increased.
When the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) began operating in 2006, about 12-million social grants were being paid. Last year, the figure had risen to 26.6-million, including the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.
As a proportion of the estimated population, it has risen from about 25% to 41%.
The biggest change came during the Covid pandemic, when the government introduced the SRD grant to support people without income…

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