Letter to the President proposing a solution to the current SRD Grants crisis

A letter from the Institute for Economic Justice to President Ramaphosa requesting urgent intervention to resolve non-payments of Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants for April and May 2022.

• The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is experiencing delays in paying outstanding SRD grants, with April back payments scheduled for July and May back payments for August, despite government statements that all outstanding grants would be paid by June.
• The non-payment of grants affects approximately 10 million people with virtually zero income, potentially impacting nearly half of the South African population when including dependents (estimated at 10-11 million beneficiaries with roughly 2 dependents each).
• The Institute for Economic Justice proposes an emergency condonation and payment of all April-May applications based on user declarations, suggesting that fraudulent claims—which have historically accounted for only around 0.2% of payments—can be addressed later.
• As an alternative remedy, the Institute suggests paying all April and May applicants who were already approved as beneficiaries up to March 2022, as these individuals have already been verified.

APA

Coleman, N. (2022). Letter to the President proposing a solution to the current SRD Grants crisis. Institute for Economic Justice. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Letter-to-President-Ramaphosa-22-June-2022-1.pdf

Chicago

Coleman, Neil. Letter to the President proposing a solution to the current SRD Grants crisis. Institute for Economic Justice, 2022. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Letter-to-President-Ramaphosa-22-June-2022-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{coleman2022letter, author = {Coleman, Neil}, title = {{Letter to the President proposing a solution to the current SRD Grants crisis}}, publisher = {Institute for Economic Justice}, year = {2022}, month = jun, url = {https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Letter-to-President-Ramaphosa-22-June-2022-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }