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The social assistance disbursed by SASSA takes the form of various grants; most of them are means-tested and paid in cash on a monthly basis. These are the Child Support Grant, the Care Dependency Grant, the Foster Child Grant, the Disability Grant, the Grant-in-Aid, the Older Person's Grant (an old-age pension), and the War Veteran's Grant. [6]
The old-age pension accounts for the highest amount of government expenditure among all social assistance programmes in South Africa. [20] The old-age pension was established in South Africa as early as the 1920s. [21] However, the old-age pension system had reflected strong racial inequality until the 1990s. [21]
In 2019, an estimated 18 million people received some form of social grant provided by the government. [13] Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [14] The earliest form of social welfare programme in South Africa is the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. [15]
Pension systems by country [1] [2] Country Pillar 0 Pillar 1 Pillar 2 Pillar 3 Afghanistan: No: Social insurance system: N/A: N/A Algeria: Social assistance: Social insurance system: N/A: N/A Argentina: Basic pension: Social insurance system: No, closed in 2008: N/A Armenia: Social assistance: Social insurance system: Mandatory individual ...
Since 2000, the coverage of legal and effective social pension has been constantly increasing, especially in recent years. [14] Between 2015 and 2017 more than 90% of the elderly population were receiving their benefits in 34 countries. The number of countries where the effective social pension coverage was less than 20% fell to 36.
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A beneficiary fund is defined as a pension fund organization in the Pension Funds Act No.24 of 1956 of South Africa, as amended in 2008. [1] A beneficiary fund is a uniquely South African entity designed to accept and administer lump sum death benefits allocated in their discretion by retirement fund trustees to the minor dependants of deceased retirement fund members, as set out in section ...
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