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Zac de Silva and Tess Ikonomou

BIZARRE: Ripped off home care recipients eligible for refunds - You Need To See This

Hundreds of thousands of people rely on the federal support at home program. (Jane Dempster/AAP PHOTOS)

Delays in a long-awaited policy designed to stop Australians in home care being overcharged are being blamed on economic shocks from the Iran war.

The federal government had intended to introduce price caps for home care services from July, but has put the move on ice for fear of baking in "volatile" cost increases from the economic turmoil caused by conflict in the Middle East.

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