To qualify for the grant, you have to be a South African citizen living in a house- hold where your combined income is less than R3 500 per month per applicant/ household. A household means a single adult older than 18 with dependants, or two adults with or without dependants. Households can apply individually or in a group. When households apply as a group, the average household income for the group must be less than R3 500 per month. It is important to understand that you will not automatically get a grant if you qualify.

The following people could qualify for the grant:

• Landless people, especially women who need to settle in rural or urban areas
• Farmworkers and their families who want to improve their settlement and land tenure conditions
• Labour tenants and their families who want to get secure title to land they are living on and to improve it, or to get alternative land
• Residents who want to get secure title to the land they are living on
• Business people who want rural land for production, like farming or a shop
• People who get land through the land restitution programme
• People who lost land but are not covered by the Restitution of Land Act