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Home carers to get nearly R10m in notice pay |05 November 2008

This is in accord with a payment package due to them following the government’s decision, as part of the reform programme, to replace the scheme by a domiciliary care programme beginning on January 1.

All home carers and their supervisors were yesterday paid three months’ salary under the package, and they will receive payments in December for their annual leave as well. These will be accompanied by salary payments if they are in their jobs in the last two months of the year.

The notice payments made in their favour amount to R5.3 million. Their salaries for November and December, plus the leave allowances they are due to receive, will bring the total paid under the package to a little less than R10 million.

The money is being distributed across the districts on Mahe, Praslin and La Digue, both in cash by social security buses and through bank transactions.

Carers who resigned from their jobs in October or before do not qualify for the package, according to the Pension Scheme’s Debbie Celtel.

She told Nation it had been decided to discontinue the Approved Scheme as one of many processes being carried out to cut spending. She said the scheme was paying an average R3.2 million monthly to home carers, amounting to about R40 million a year, which she stressed was a high figure.

She also explained that, as stated by the Minister for Health and Social Development Marie-Pierre Lloyd during a recent National Assembly sitting, as from January 2009 everyone needing home care services will have to apply through the domiciliary care unit of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

 

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