Home care workers are getting the help to pay for fuel they've been asking for.

Health Minister Simeon Brown's announced home and community support workers will be getting a temporary 30 percent mileage rate increase to assist with the fuel crisis. 

Home and Community Health Association CEO Lisa Foster says this is the right move forward - as workers have been getting increasingly stressed.

"Just around the challenge for Easter, when people need care in their home, or urgent, essential, critical care - and we basically may not be able to deliver that." 

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