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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 Child Support Grant was introduced in 1998. [14] CSG is a cash assistance to poor children under the age of 6 and expanded to children under the age of 14 in 2005. [14] CSG paid the guardians of the eligible children R460 per month per child in 2022 through the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) under the DSD. [15]
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]
Ten Million SASSA MasterCard Cards Issued to South African Social Grant Beneficiaries Electronic programme helps government minimise fraud, reduce costs, and extend financial inclusion to millions ...
Few development initiatives have been evaluated as rigorously as CCT programs. [1] The implementation of conditional cash transfer programs has been accompanied by systematic efforts to measure their effectiveness and understand their broader impact on household behavior, [1] a marked departure from the limited attention that was paid to rigorous impact evaluations in the past.
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Seal of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, which administered the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a federal assistance program in the United States in effect from 1935 to 1997, created by the Social Security Act (SSA) and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that ...
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