The money they receive from the province, he claims, isn’t going as far as it used to due to rising prices.
“With the gas prices … [if] somebody has to spend $10 just to come here and go back, how am I going to pay $20 an hour for two hours?”
Health care assistants are paid an hourly rate of $21.40, while home support workers are paid an hourly rate of $14.50, according to rates established by the province. Since 2012, those rates have remained the very same.
Crucially, they don’t directly transfer into hourly pay.
The cost of administrative expenses, including as deductions from the Canada Pension Plan and workers’ compensation, is the responsibility of those who manage their own care. Users of the program claim that for years, the funding was insufficient.
