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_________________________________________________________________________ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY QUESTION NUMBER: 1795 DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 06 MAY 2022 INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NUMBER: 16 - 2022 1795.
Ms L L van der Merwe (IFP) to ask the Minister of Social Development: Which programmes had their budgets cut by (a) her department at national level and (b) each of her department’s provincial departments in the 2021-22 financial year NW2124E REPLY: (a) National Department of Social Development Programme Compensation of Employees (All) Goods and Services (All) Transfers and Subsidies Social Assistance Grants (P2) SASSA Administration (P3) National Development Agency (P5) Budget Reduction R’000 (63 000) (27 000) (8 000 000) (641 000) (20 900) Grand Total (8 751 900) i.
Social Assistance Grants – R 8 billion An amount of R8 billion was reduced in the 2021/22 financial year from the Social Assistance programme.

ii.

SASSA – R 641 million An amount of R641 million was reduced from the SASSA Admin baseline as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.

1  An amount of R20.9 million was reduced from the baseline of the NDA as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.
 An amount of R63 million was reduced from the NDSD personnel budget baseline as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.

 An amount of R27 million was reduced from the Goods and Services as a direct implication on the budget reduction of the personnel budget (b) Provincial Departments of Social Development Eastern Cape An amount of R77,951 million has been reduced from various programmes.
An amount of R18.8 million has been reduced from programmes related to Compensation of Employees.
R59,151 million has been reduced from Transfer and subsidies and is listed below: Programme Compensation of Employees (All) Transfers and Subsidies Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Sub Total – Transfer and Subsidies Grand Total Free State Budget Reduction R’000 (18 800) (841) (14 239) (36 719) (5 023) (2 329) (59 151) (77 951) From the 2021/22 financial year, the departmental budget decreased with R77.196 million.
The cuts were mainly on Compensation of Employees as a result of freezing of annual salary adjustments over the MTEF, as listed below: 2 Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total Gauteng Budget Reduction R’000 (36 387) (15 422) (22 004) 18 980 (23 083) (77 916) The Gauteng Department of Social Development baseline allocation was reduced by R420.3 million in the 2021/22 financial year and the below table reflects the budget cuts per programme: Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total KwaZulu-Natal Budget Reduction R’000 (Million) (35 330) (24 441) (181 766) (115 676) (63 130) (420 343) The table below reflect the budget cuts to the 2021/22 financial year per programme: Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total Budget Reduction R’000 (45 779) (59 332) (172 798) (20 000) (25 000) (322 909) 3 Limpopo An amount of R 482.
6 million was cut across all programs during 2021/22 financial year as indicated below: Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total Mpumalanga Budget Reduction R’000 (80 788) (74 649) (225 563) (56 469) (45 217) (482 686) There were no budgets decreases to any of the programmes imposed for the 2021/22 financial year.
However, an amount of R80.0 million was decreased during the 2021/22 budget adjustment process during September 2021 related to the new social infrastructure projects.

Northern Cape The Department’s EPWP allocation was reduced from R9,3 million to R5,2 million allocation for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial year respectively.
North West The budget reduction implemented in 2021/22 financial was R 228.4 million, and in 2022/23 R 311.5 million and a further transfer of ECD function to the Department of Education amounting to R 192 million.
Analysis of the budget reduction during the 2021 MTEF is discussed in the analysis table below: - 4 Below is the breakdown of budget reduction per programme Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total Budget reduction per economic classification Economic classification Compensation of employees Goods and Services Non-profit institutions Machinery and equipment Total Compensation of employees Budget Reduction R’000 (11,195) (77,882) (75,710) (35,360) (28,274) (228,421) Budget Reduction R’ 000 (150,007) (24,869) (41,028) (12,517) (228,421) The reduction on compensation of employees implies that the Department will not be able to appoint critical posts, and the phasing out of performance awards and other improvement on conditions of services.
Goods and services The reduction on this economic classification was mainly on services not to be rendered during COVID-19 i.e.

venues and facilities, catering due to restrictions implemented at that stage.

Transfers and subsidies This reduction had an implication on the targets to our funded NGO’s, and expansion of services.

5 Machinery and equipment The reduction on this economic classification was mainly aligned to the reduction on compensation of employees.
Western Cape The Western Cape DSD have the following budget cuts over the 2020 MTEF.

Programme Administration Social Welfare Services Children and Families Restorative Services Development and Research Total Budget Reduction R’000 (41,503) (82,048) (42,366) (63,200) 7, 266 (221,851)  The reduction on Compensation of employees impacted services offered by the Department.

Norms and standards ratio for child vs care worker were not met and increased absenteeism.
 The ability to respond to disasters and humanitarian relief was severely impacted.

There was limited ability to address food insecurity where SASSA didn't have additional funding.

 The EPWP (Extended Public Works Programme) was reduced by R9.944 million.

 The department received an additional R25 million to strengthen food relief measures in support of the Western Cape Recovery Plan.

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