Social Assistance Act, 2004 (Act No. 13 of 2004)

Regulations

Regulations relating to the Application for and Payment of Social Assistance and the requirements or conditions in respect of eligibility for Social Assistance

Annexures

Annexure A : Determination of Financial Criteria for Older Persons Grant, Disability Grant and War Veterans Grant
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(1)The maximum amount of an older person's grant, disability grant or war veteran's grant shall from time to time be determined by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance by notice in the Gazette.

 

(2)The formula for the determination of the value of the older persons grant, disability grant and war veterans grant to be paid to an applicant is:

D = 1,3A – 0,5B where—

(i)A = the maximum social grant payable per annum as approved;
(ii)B = the annual income of the applicant in accordance with regulation 19, which shall include the income from assets as determined in regulation 19(3), after permissible deductions contemplated in regulation 20 are effected;
(iii)D = annual social grant amount payable, which must not exceed the amount equal to A.

 

(3)Where a person in a spousal relationship has been deserted by his or her spouse for a continuous period of at least three months and the spouse is unwilling to support that person, the applicant is to be regarded as not being in a spousal relationship for the purpose of determining the means as contemplated in regulation 19.

 

(4)The Agency must, if it is convinced that a person in a spousal relationship was deserted by his or her spouse for a continuous period of at least three months, and the spouse is unwilling to support that person, grant approval to disregard the means of the spouse.

 

(5)No grant amounting to less than R100 per month is payable.

 

(6)No grant may be paid to any person not in a spousal relationship whose total assets as contemplated in regulation 19 exceeds 40 times A or to any person in a spousal relationship whose total assets exceeds 80 times A.