Image: BARBARA GINDL (APA)
Those in need of care from care allowance level three, who are cared for at home, should receive 1,000 euros per year – as support for care in their own four walls, announced state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner (ÖVP) and her deputy Udo Landbauer (FPÖ) in a broadcast at. The budget is 47 million euros per year.
Money for 47,000 Lower Austrians
With the “care check” those affected should be able to finance additional services beyond the care allowance. Around 47,000 Lower Austrians are to receive the money. They want to differentiate themselves from the Burgenland model, with which caregiving relatives can be employed by the state. According to the State Audit Office, this is used by 188 people, and Mikl-Leitner and Landbauer emphasized that significantly more should benefit from the care of thousands. A social scale is to be worked out.
Swipe towards SPÖ
The provincial governor also used the presentation of the first joint project with the FPÖ for a dig at the Social Democrats: the care check is a “measure with which we can reach 47,000 people in Lower Austria and which was not feasible with the SPÖ”. For farmers it is also a contribution in the “fight against inflation”.
Source: Nachrichten
