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Advocates vow to fight for direct care pay increase after state House committee nixes it in budget


Excellacare Care Provider Sarah Sutherlin gets her phone ready for her client Carmela Palamara, 92, of Brownstown to sign her name to clock Sutherlin out after finishing coloring together at Palamara s home in Brownstown on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Sutherlin has done in home personal care and homemaking to help her live independently three days-a-week for the last three years.
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Advocates say they re still confident that a $2.25 pay increase for direct care workers will be included in next year s budget.
That s even though the state House Appropriations Committee did not approve an amendment for the pay increase on Wednesday. ....

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Permanent wage increase essential for Michigan DCWs (Image Credit (Resch Strategies/Media Image))
After an important amendment to fully fund Michigan s Direct Care workforce wage increase was struck down in the state s House Appropriations Committee this morning, advocates and families are again calling for a permanent fix to support caregivers over the long term.
State Rep. Felicia Brabec (D-Pittsfield Twp.) offered today s amendment with the support of several other Democrat committee members.
We are incredibly grateful to Rep. Brabec and her colleagues for their initiative and urge the full chamber to support this amendment when the budget reaches the House floor, said Robert Stein, general counsel for the Michigan Assisted Living Association. If not for the temporary increases passed to adequately compensate Direct Care Workers during the past year, tens of thousands of our state s families would be facing tremendous hardship today. And if today s temp ....

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Whitmer - Gov. Whitmer signs supplemental funding to support COVID-19 recovery plan, additional work now needed to fully utilize federal aid


  
Gov. Whitmer signs supplemental funding to support COVID-19 recovery plan, additional work now needed to fully utilize federal aid 
Funding secured for wage increase for direct care workers, schools, emergency rental assistance, vaccine administration, and testing. 
  
LANSING, Mich.  Today Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation that supports the COVID-19 recovery plan she sent to the legislature in January. It includes key provisions of the governor’s MI COVID Recovery Plan, including a $2.25/hour wage increase for direct care workers, $283 million in federal emergency rental assistance to help ensure people can stay in their homes, up to $110 million in federal funding for vaccine administration, and up to $555 million in federal funding for testing and tracing.  ....

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