The relatively generous social grants reduces the political cost of unemployment.

The first project will pilot the solution for the distribution of social grant payments to war victims.

Though the country has only 6 million taxpayers, about 15 million people receive some kind of social grant.

The share of individuals claiming social grants has been steadily rising, towards 30%.

Social grants from the South African government further support households affected by the changing climate.

More than 13 million people now receive social grants in South Africa, nearly double the figure in 2004.

Depending on the nature of the program, overcoverage can be costly and problematic (e.g. social grants).

Orphans and children of parents who receive poverty-linked social grants are also exempt from paying school fees.

Projects identified include the payment of social grants to war victims, employee salary/wage payments, banking products and financial services.

Other instruments include direct public expenditure projects, loan guarantees and subsidies, as well as social grants.

The average household income is R3,200 or less, indicating that many residents hold low income jobs or live on social grants.

Ennahda promises social housing, broader access to health care, bigger social grants and a higher minimum wage.

And the report hints at a deeper problem: social grants and public goods cannot make up for South Africa's woeful lack of jobs.

In some cases, when men are responsible for the distribution of social grants in the household instead of women, they use the money to purchase alcohol.

Parliamentary discussions on border security are rife with claims that foreign nationals are attempting to drain social grants and economic opportunities from citizens.

A welfare trap in this context, by contrast, refers to the barrier created by means tested social grants that have in built perverse incentives.

SASSA was created to administer the application, approval and payment of social grants in South Africa.

So these businesses are now going to have to repay the social grants which they were given because of an extremist, narrow-minded and almost plain stupid way of seeing things.

The South African government is looking into possibly using this smart card not just as an identification card but also for licences, National Health Insurance, and social grants.

There is some evidence that households view paid employment and social grants as substitutes at the margin: households that lose a pension-eligible member subsequently report increased labour force participation.

Many are aimed at addressing poverty, for example, the public works programmes, the provision of basic infrastructure, access to basic services and the roll out of social grants that benefit children.

Stats S.A. added the richest 10 percent of the population earned on average 94 times that of the poorest, with poorer households highly dependent on social grants. '

It has a budget allocation of approximately R100 billion, and provides social grants to 15,8 million beneficiaries to reduce their levels of deprivation and enable them to participate in the economy.

In any event, once entitlement to all kinds of unemployment benefits is over, municipalities provide these people with social grants and allowances, thereby ensuring them with a minimum of social protection.

"Large numbers of such experiments have been conducted in the United States in order to test the effects of governmental measures on the individual, social grants, rewards, training programs, information meetings, etcetera.