Making it easier for older to Australians to continue working
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Politics by Sue Dunlevy
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Subscriber only Tens of thousands of older people who need help to stay at home will miss out because a budget funding increase is $1.4 billion short of what is required. The revelation came as aged care providers, nurses and pensioners welcomed the record $17.7 billion funding injection for aged care but agreed it was not enough to fix the neglect of our elderly. A detailed analysis by the Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association reveals the 100,000-long waiting list for home care packages won t be eliminated by extra funding in the budget. The government s own data shows in December there were 96,859 people waiting for a home care package but the budget will fund only 40,000 new places next financial year and a further 40,000 places from July 2022.