UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME COALITION SCORECARD - How Do Parties Compare on Basic Income Policy?

The proposed basic income grant would be linked to the national poverty lines, and increase over a period of three years initially, from R790 in the first year, to R1101 in the second year, and R1622 in the third year. [...] The ANC is committed to progressively implementing a basic income support grant by extending and improving the value and coverage of the SRD grant for the unemployed.” Moreover, they commit to an adequate and increasing value for the grant, tied to official cost of living measures: “We will index the grant’s value to the minimum Food Poverty Line, progressively moving towards the Upper Bound Pover. [...] They will also increase the child support grant to the food poverty line (currently R760), while increasing the older persons’ grant and the disability grant to equal to the National Minimum Wage. [...] Therefore, in order to satisfy this criterion on our scorecard, parties needed to have a clear policy both to retain other social grants alongside a BIG, and to make sure the value of the CSG maintained parity with the value of the BIG. [...] A score of “not met” means either that a party has a current policy which clearly contradicts the demand, or that we were unable to verify that the party had a publicly available policy that addressed the demand at the time of the publication of the scorecard.