{"id":34851,"date":"2022-08-05T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/over-half-a-million-applicants-for-r350-grant-have-tertiary-qualifications"},"modified":"2022-08-05T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:40:10","slug":"over-half-a-million-applicants-for-r350-grant-have-tertiary-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/over-half-a-million-applicants-for-r350-grant-have-tertiary-qualifications","title":{"rendered":"Over half a million applicants for R350 grant have tertiary qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>About 60% of applicants for the R350-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant are young, according to the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). Also, approximately 5% of all SRD grant applicants hold tertiary<\/p>\n<p>qualifications. The number of SRD grant youth applicants &#8220;correlates well&#8221; with the country\u2019s current youth unemployment rates, says Andrew Donaldson, Senior Research<\/p>\n<p>Associate at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU). According to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), for the first quarter of 2022, the unemployment<\/p>\n<p>rate was 64% for those aged 15-24 and 42% for those aged 25-34 years. The current official national rate stands at 35%. Asked what the possible impact might be of giving the SRD grant to young<\/p>\n<p>people in terms of employment opportunities, Donaldson said, &#8220;It is likely that the SRD will assist some people in meeting the costs of searching for work, in<\/p>\n<p>addition to making a modest contribution to living expenses \u2026 But this doesn\u2019t lead to more work opportunities, so the search for work remains a source of<\/p>\n<p>frustration and anger even for grant recipients.&#8221; A study conducted by the advocacy campaign Youth Capital and Open Dialogue on the costs of job-seeking found that more<\/p>\n<p>than 80% of unemployed young people in South Africa have to choose between looking for work and buying food. The study, built on the findings of the 2019 Siyakha<\/p>\n<p>Youth Assets Study of youth unemployment, found that looking for work could cost a young South African on average R938 a month, for transport, data or<\/p>\n<p>internet usage, printing, certification, copying, postage, scanning, as well as application fees or agency fees. According to SASSA spokesperson Paseka Letsatsi, 930 000 SRD applications<\/p>\n<p>were received in July from people under 20; more than 2 226 000 from people aged 20-24; and 3.9 million from people aged 25 to 35 years old. SASSA received the highest number of applications for people aged 20 to 35<\/p>\n<p>years from KwaZulu-Natal at 1 482 968. This was followed by Gauteng (1 187 349), Limpopo (861 317), the Eastern Cape (784 124) and Mpumalanga (577 400).<\/p>\n<p>Letsatsi said by 26 July, the agency had received more than 600 000 applications from individuals with tertiary-level education (of all ages). The agency says approximately 5.2 million SRD grant applications were approved, as of 19 July 2022, and more than 4 million of those people have received payment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. About 60% of applicants for the R350-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant are young, according to the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). Also, approximately 5% of all SRD grant applicants hold tertiary qualifications. 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