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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

Over 70% of Australia’s aged care workers yet to receive $800 pandemic bonus, poll suggests

caregiver helping person in wheelchair into taxi
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says the Morrison government ‘hasn’t even delivered on its promised bonus payment for workers’. Photograph: Kazuma Seki/Getty Images/iStockphoto

More than 70% of aged care workers are yet to receive a single payment through the Morrison government’s pandemic bonus scheme four months after it was announced, staff polling suggests.

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced in January up to $800 would be made available to aged care workers through a bonus scheme designed to recognise their efforts in the pandemic and stem the loss of workers from the sector.

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