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Last week a number of friends texted and emailed me to ask:

“I saw in the media that elderly people are getting slugged an Exit Fee – of $4,153 ^[1] just for leaving the current provider of their Home Care Package. Kate, is that really […]

5 May 2017 Update: This week the Old-School Approved Provider who said, “Kate, you are wrong” (see below) agreed to refund two clients the following secret, undisclosed, hidden Home Care Package fees:

Client 1 – $4,589.76

Client 2 – 4,620.28

of secret undisclosed hidden Home Care Package fees.

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If you are already in receipt of a Government Subsidised Home Care Package then you would have recently received a letter from the Federal Government via My Aged Care that looks like this: Essentially this letter is saying:

• From the 27^th February 2017 your Home Care Package is

A new national system for prioritising access to home care has now been established. The new system will allow home care packages to be assigned to consumers according to:

• their relative needs
• how long they have been waiting for care.

The department has started releasing home care packages through the new system, with approximately 11,300 packages scheduled […]