SITESHI LIGWALAGWAL FM LUHLELO TEMMANGO -SASSA UMSAKATI PRETTY DIBAKOANE LUSUKU 11 LWETI 2012 SIKHATSI 21H30-22h00 SIHLOKO : Episode 2 SASSA The South African Child Support Grant (CSG) was first introduced in 1998. Over the past 16 years, South Africa’s social grant programme has evolved into one of the most comprehensive social protection systems in the developing world. Expansions to the Child Support Grant’s criteria for eligibility over this same period include an increase in the age limit from seven to eighteen years old, and adjustments to the income threshold to take inflation into account and improve equity. The Child Support Grant is promoting nutritional, educational and health outcomes for millions of children in South Africa. Early receipt significantly strengthens a number of these important impacts, providing an investment in people that reduces poverty measured along a number of important dimensions promotes better gender outcomes and reduces vulnerability. The study also finds that adolescents receiving the Child Support Grant are more likely to have positive educational outcomes, are less likely to resort to child labour, and are significantly less likely to engage in behaviours that put their health and well-being at serious risk. 1. The Child Support Grant generates positive developmental impacts that multiply its benefits in terms of directly and indirectly reducing poverty and vulnerability; and promoting long-term developmental changes, helping to break the inter-generational transmission of poverty. 2. Early enrolment in the Child Support Grant programme substantially strengthens its impacts. Early receipt (from birth) of the Grant generates particularly powerful impacts that strengthen human capabilities and enable children to grow up with a lower risk of being trapped by poverty. 3. Promoting continuous access to the CSG for eligible children through adolescence, as opposed to interruptions in the benefits, reinforces the positive impacts. The evidence also strengthens the case for universal provision of the CSG. 4. Receipt of the grant by adolescents generates a range of positive impacts, not least being a reduction in risky behaviours, which in the context of high HIV prevalence, generates a particularly protective impact. 5. Supporting financial inclusion measures, particularly those that promote savings behaviour, and expanding and strengthening complementary linkages (such as social worker interventions supporting educational and other outcomes) will better enable households to cope with the eventual ageing out of grant eligibility (when the child reaches 18 years of age) and further deepen the Child Support Grant’s long-term developmental impact, particularly by expanding economic opportunities. 6. Measures that promote early and continuous receipt of the Child Support Grant will more effectively protect childrens rights and contribute to human capital development, helping to lift children on development pathways out of poverty. If you are needy, you can get a grant to help you raise the child you look after • Please tell us what is a child support grant? How much does it pay? • Who qualifies for this grant? - can mothers of new-born babies (o months) access this grant? • How many children, per family can a grant be applied for? • Where does one apply for a grant and what documents are needed? • What is a means test and why is it relevant when applying for a child social grant? • What happens if I lie on the application and provide false information? • How long will I wait for the applications outcome? • What happens if ones application is not successful yet I strongly disagree with the judgement? • If the application is successful, how long will it take before I get paid? • Is it possible to have a grant suspended or taken away? • Can you give some examples of common challenges you experience with regards to this grant?
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