The daughter of a woman who was recently accepted into a personal care home is calling the provincial government’s personal care home subsidy program a “complete failure.”

The province announced in September an increase of $15.4 million for government subsidized beds in personal care and community care homes in the province.

Michelle Williams says her mother had only been in the home for two weeks when the family was notified that her monthly rate was increasing significantly.

Williams’ mother, who requires Level II care, is not subsidized because she doesn’t meet the income threshold, which means she has to pay more.

Williams says the personal care home has to increase rates, and with the increase in the subsidy announced last month, subsidized residents are not affected, but people like her mother now have to pay more than $400 extra a month, out-of-pocket.

Williams says the increase affects hundreds of personal care home residents who don’t meet the income threshold. She calls that a massive failure on the provincial government’s part.