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Topic: Disability Rights | Show questions and answers for all topics
You can call a family meeting or approach an organisation that helps families having marital problems.
The disability grant is only available to people aged 19 to 59.
If your WCA claim was still being assessed, then yes. But it is unclear whether you can apply for UIF now.
Yes, but only if you still pass the means test.
The municipality should help you, but you may have better luck contacting a humanitarian organisation.
Yes, the municipality is supposed to give preference to a disabled person applying for an RDP house.
Sometimes, but ultimately it is up to SASSA's discretion
The employer is not obliged to retain an employee who is permanently incapacitated if her working circumstances cannot be adapted.
You may need legal intervention to compel Social Services to issue the required documentation for Home Affairs.
You may not earn more than R172,560 (R14,380 per month) jointly, if you are married.