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Lisa Foster: Home and Community Health Association CEO on the Government confirming support coming for home care workers
Published 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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Home care workers are getting the help to pay for fuel they've been asking for.
Health Minister Simeon Brown's announced home and community support workers will be getting a temporary 30 percent mileage rate increase to assist with the fuel crisis.
Home and Community Health Association CEO Lisa Foster says this is the right move forward - as workers have been getting increasingly stressed.
"Just around the challenge for Easter, when people need care in their home, or urgent, essential, critical care - and we basically may not be able to deliver that."
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