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Mother dies before man receives care allowance

More than 10,000 applicants waiting for approval

April 16th, 2008 issue

(Updated April 16, 2008) A man who applied for a care-giver's allowance to take care of his dying mother did not receive it until after she died, Mladá fronta Dnes reported Thursday.

Martin, a 27-year-old computer programmer, decided to take care of his mother at home as she battled lung cancer. He said he did not to put her in hospice care.

"Everyone tried to talk me out of it, but I was decided. I wanted to be with my mom," said Martin, whose last name was not published for privacy reasons.

Martin quit his job and applied in 2007 for a government care-giver’s allowance. The processing took six months, coming only after his mother had died, the newspaper reported.

"I tried to push the application, but there was no result," Martin said.

Because Prague is short of expert health assessors, such applications can take months.

About 10,200 applicants are currently waiting to see if they will be approved to receive a care-giver’s allowance. Many of them have been waiting for more than a year, according to the newspaper.


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