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<p>This paper presents a synopsis of recipients’ benefits from the South African COVID-19 social relief fund. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the key benefit of the COVID-19 special grant and if the Grant had a positive impact in the lives of recipients and their family members. The paper applied a mix of succinct review and thematic analysis. Secondary data collection was from the archive of survey questionnaires conducted by the Department of Social Development. Findings from the thematic graphical analysis of the recipients’ responses show that more than 93% of the COVID grant recipients used the fund for food. Furthermore, over 88% avowed that the grant had a positive impact in their lives and over 79% of the grant recipients indicated that the fund had a positive impact in the lives of their family members. The findings offer practical and policy implication for government’s social security agency. The recipients’ acceptance of positive benefit regarding food and overall effect on wellbeing is an indication that extension of the COVID-19 social relief fund or conversion thereof to unemployment security assistance might have the propensity to provide relief from poverty and hunger to recipients and improve social wellbeing. The paper highlights the imperative for further research to expand this analysis by using other countries for a comparative analysis.</p>
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This paper presents a synopsis of recipients’ benefits from the South African COVID-19 social relief fund. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the key benefit of the COVID-19 special grant and if the Grant had a positive impact in the lives of recipients and their family members. The paper applied a mix of succinct review and thematic analysis. Secondary data collection was from the archive of survey questionnaires conducted by the Department of Social Development. Findings from the thematic graphical analysis of the recipients’ responses show that more than 93% of the COVID grant recipients used the fund for food. Furthermore, over 88% avowed that the grant had a positive impact in their lives and over 79% of the grant recipients indicated that the fund had a positive impact in the lives of their family members. The findings offer practical and policy implication for government’s social security agency. The recipients’ acceptance of positive benefit regarding food and overall effect on wellbeing is an indication that extension of the COVID-19 social relief fund or conversion thereof to unemployment security assistance might have the propensity to provide relief from poverty and hunger to recipients and improve social wellbeing. The paper highlights the imperative for further research to expand this analysis by using other countries for a comparative analysis.

Government’s Covid-19 Social Grant in South Africa: A Synopsis of the Effect on Recipients

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This paper presents a synopsis of recipients’ benefits from the South African COVID-19 social relief fund. The objective of the paper is to evaluate the key...

Government’s Covid-19 Social Grant in South Africa: A Synopsis of the Effect on Recipients

Data publikacji: 12 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 93 - 101

Otrzymano: 01 sie 2022

Przyjęty: 01 paź 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2022-0017

Słowa kluczowe
Government grants, social security, covid-19 relief, distress relief, social security governance, hunger, and poverty

© 2022 Sipho Mokoena et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Government’s Covid-19 Social Grant in South Africa: A Synopsis of the Effect on Recipients

Data publikacji: 12 gru 2022

Zakres stron: 93 - 101

Otrzymano: 01 sie 2022

Przyjęty: 01 paź 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hjbpa-2022-0017

Słowa kluczoweGovernment grants, social security, covid-19 relief, distress relief, social security governance, hunger, and poverty

© 2022 Sipho Mokoena et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
Government grants, social security, covid-19 relief, distress relief, social security governance, hunger, and poverty