Whether the 17,5 million people who will be accessing social assistance by 2017-18 will (a) have strong incentives to undertake any remunerated work if they are (i) of age and (ii) have the skills and opportunity to augment their income to improve their economic situation, thus freeing themselves from being solely dependent on social assistance which is inadequate for their Friday, 13 March 2015 229 INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO 7 - 2015 families’ needs; if not, why not; if so, what are the details of such a programme?