Extra HACC funding for NSW
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by DPS
Paul Lynch MP
The Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, and the New South Wales (NSW) Minister for Ageing and Disability Services, Paul Lynch, have announced an extra $13.3 million for Home and Community Care (HACC) services in NSW.
The additional funding will support 400 new or extended HACC projects across NSW including:
- $2.4 million to selected services to assist in providing food, transport and respite services to older Australians, people with a disability, and carers;
- $60,000 for a bus with a wheelchair lift for the Shoalhaven Dementia Day Care;
- More than $60,000 to extend a HACC centre in Tamworth to incorporate Meals on Wheels services; and
- More than $2 million to extend HACC services in the Cumberland Prospect region of North West Sydney.
New South Wales will receive joint HACC funding of $546.3 million in 2008-09, of which the Australian Government will contribute $326.9 million and the New South Wales government $219.3 million.
