Translation of "Services d'aide ménager et de maintien à domicile " (French → English) :

‘Rest of the economy’ means other resident healthcare providers not elsewhere classified, including households as providers of personal home health services to family members, in cases where they correspond to social transfer payments granted for this purpose as well as all other industries that offer healthcare as a secondary activity.

98133100-5, 98133000-4 and 98200000-5 and 98500000-8 [Private households with employed persons] and 98513000-2 to 98514000-9 [Manpower services for households, Agency staff services for households, Clerical staff services for households, Temporary staff for households, Home-help services and Domestic services],

For example, we are advocating for a Canada-wide seniors independence program modelled on the very successful VIP program (1540) Our recent advocacy work with Veterans Affairs Canada has resulted in the following improvements to benefits: the provision of full VIP and health care benefits for overseas veterans at home when they are deemed eligible to access a Veterans Affairs priority bed assessed at level II care and such a bed is not available at that time because of a waiting list; the provision of increased prisoner of war compensation; the re-establishment of the education assistance program; the provision of a full range of heal ...[+++]th programs for war veterans with a disability pension for a disability assessed as medium, which is 47 % to 77 %; the clarification of service requirements for the war veterans assistance program; the lifetime continuation of VIP services for surviving spouses; and the provision of long-term care benefits in community care facilities for allied veterans.

The program is for widows to give them help with housekeeping and grounds maintenance.

12. Welcomes the Council’s and Parliament’s decision to allow Member States to levy reduced rates of VAT on services such as community care, minor repair and refurbishment work and cleaning services up to the end of 2003; urges, however, that these jobs too should be of high quality; asks for an in-depth evaluation of the results of this measure in the Member States in order to judge on possible exemptions in the future; calls also on the Council and Member States to ensure that sectors of importance for job creation and social inc ...[+++]lusion – such as the social economy – are treated more favourably in terms of taxes and social security contributions;

I think that in the document that's being presented there's a request for 25% for home support services. That's very important, because when we request that 25% for home support services, it's for help with taking baths or for cooking when people can't do their own cooking themselves anymore.