Civil society coalition rejects National Treasury scheme to terminate income support for adults - Is the Brazilian Bolsa Familia experience one to emulate?

Currently, the overwhelming call by civil society, and supported by the governing party, is that government should extend and improve the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant from April 2022, as a basis to introduce a Basic Income Guarantee for the 18-59 age group. [...] Yet to prevent this, Treasury is now proposing to terminate the SRD grant being received by over 9 million people and replace it with a ‘family grant’; supposedly modelled on the Brazilian Bolsa Familia, which will only be given to the ‘head’ of a family household. [...] - It will deepen dependency of household members on the ‘head of the household’, and worsen gender power imbalances, and GBV. [...] It is impossible to determine the number of dependents a household head is responsible for, so the grant is a horribly blunt instrument (unlike the grant to adult individuals). [...] - Because the proposal will remove the SRD grants of so many people currently receiving it, it is a regression on the constitutional obligation to progressively realise the right to social security for all, and therefore is prima facie unconstitutional.