Hon Minister, asking someone living in extreme poverty who has taken on the extra financial burden of raising an orphaned child to willingly choose the child support grant of R430 or the proposed top-up amount of R615 per month, when a foster care grant is R1 000, is actually asking that family to take food out of that child's mouth and the mouths of the other members of that family. Bills alone cannot solve the problem.
Minister, how will the department encourage these grant recipients to choose R430 or R650 over a R1 000 a month, since this is one of your solutions?