Programme 2: expenditure was R26 billion, or 24.8 per cent of the available budget of R104.9 billion. Planned expenditure was R32.5 billion so the department was documented as behind by R6.5 billion. Again, R5.3 billion of this reflected only an accounting technicality rather than a genuine problem in expenditure or financial planning. The remainder was primarily due to lower than anticipated uptake of social grants and the department was expecting to catch up on this expenditure during the financial year.