you chairperson the need for the amendment to the social assistance bill was realised when the two thousand three four uptake of disability grants spiked at more than three times the projected figure for that period an investigation was done to establish the cause of this sudden increase the core findings were that there was no common definition for what constituted a disability and that there was no uniform assessment method or tool to determine whether a person had a disability this situation resulted in errors of both inclusion and exclusion the social assistance amendment bill was an attempt to deal with the definition of disability which is an extremely complex matter one of the criteria used in terms of the proposed bill to determine whether a person has a disability was whether he or she was able or not able to enter the labour market it seems as if that contentious issue was not going to be decided for now