Despite the pay increases recently granted for personal care attendants, their wages still lag significantly behind other jobs, making it difficult if not impossible to find and retain suitable caregivers. In many families, a parent or spouse is forced to miss work or even leave the workforce entirely in order to stand in the gap for their disabled loved one. I urge you to codify permission for LRIs to remain paid caregivers, because families shouldn’t have to choose between securing proper care for their disabled loved ones and financial disaster.