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The Black Sash has launched a court application to overturn regulations that stipulate that anyone with an income of more than R350 may not receive the R350 grant. The means test will exclude millions of poor people, it said on Thursday
Human rights advocacy group the Black Sash Trust has launched legal action against government to overturn regulations that exclude many poor people from accessing the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. The latest iteration of the R350 grant, which was supposed to run from April to the end of March next year, put in place a means test of R350, meaning that anyone who has income above that level – even if it is support from a family member – is excluded from the grant. Previous versions of the grant did not require a means test.