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Kat Wong

Carers offered more work flexibility in employment push

Carers will get more flexibility around their work hours under the federal government's 2024 budget. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

Carers will be able to work more flexibly while holding onto their support payments in a federal government bid to remove barriers to employment.

About one-in-ten people across Australia provide unpaid care for a loved one with a disability or an older person and roughly 304,500 of them receive the government carer payment.

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