City of Johannesburg- Pensioners to benefit from property rate rebates

Mbasa Gqokoma
17 June 2015

More pensioners are set to benefit from the City of Johannesburg’s property rates rebates come July 1 2015 as the City implement new tariffs.

This comes after the City held public consultations with rate-payers early in the year, and decided to increase the pensioners’ income level requirement, ensuring that more pensioners now qualify.

Group Finance Department spokesperson, Kgamanyane Stan Mphologela said this year as the City of Johannesburg we are announcing that the tariffs are going to benefit the pensioners quite a lot, in a sense that more pensioners will benefit from the Cities property rate rebates effective from the 1^st of July.

“This comes after we have done public consultations with rate payers. Pensioners to qualify for the property rate rebates must apply, they are not automatics”

”Pensioners who qualify for property rate rebate include pensioners who’s gross monthly income is lower that 700-850 which is lower than last year’s 7.4 and the pensioner must be staying in the property” Mphologela added .