Tony Abbott’s $1.7bn cut to the Commonwealth Home Support Program will affect services including Meals on Wheels, respite care, cleaning, maintenance and other in-home services for elderly Australians living in their homes.
The government said the $1.7bn in savings from this measure would be directed to repairing the budget.
A $1.5bn scheme to fund wage increases for the aged-care workforce will also be scrapped, but the money will be redirected into boosting subsidies to aged-care providers by 2.4 per cent.
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I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com
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4 thoughts on “Cuts to Aged Care”
It sounds as if Oz is going in the same direction as the UK. Very sorry for the elderly who find themselves in this situation.
Same direction everywhere, Cat. I think the reason is, that those who already have a lot, think they deserve to have more. What they leave for the poor people is the barest minimum.
Personally Auntyuta, this whole bloody budget has got me well and truely confused, seems a case of running in circles everytime a new government comes to power.
Cheers
Ian
Yea, cheers, Ian, maybe we just have to run in circles for a while. It seems there’s not much difference no matter what government we vote in!
Aunty Uta 🙂
AuntyUta 
It sounds as if Oz is going in the same direction as the UK. Very sorry for the elderly who find themselves in this situation.
Same direction everywhere, Cat. I think the reason is, that those who already have a lot, think they deserve to have more. What they leave for the poor people is the barest minimum.
Personally Auntyuta, this whole bloody budget has got me well and truely confused, seems a case of running in circles everytime a new government comes to power.
Cheers
Ian
Yea, cheers, Ian, maybe we just have to run in circles for a while. It seems there’s not much difference no matter what government we vote in!
Aunty Uta 🙂