Nearly 1,000 Minnesota PCA Applicants Are Stuck In Background Check Limbo

By David Schuman, CBS Minnesota

January 13, 2023

Amidst Minnesota's personal care assistant (PCA) staffing shortage, there are some people who want to work but can't.

Tammy Heuer is going on three months without pay because of bureaucratic backlogs. She describes herself as "quasi-employed."

Heuer says a Cambridge home care agency has hired her, and she's taking care of her partner with a disability, Randy, at their home in Mora, but she's not getting paid for it.

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