The Home Care Packages report for April 1 to June 30 showed 1172 people in Riverina-Murray, and 948 in Hume, were waiting on their approved package.

That was 202 people fewer than the previous quarter for Riverina and 137 fewer for Hume, but 14 per cent of the people on the waiting list were in need of the highest level of support.

Dr Haines questioned the delays and said it was an issue that even the government's independent Aged Care Financing Authority had identified.

"We need to work in a bipartisan way to resolve this challenge," she said.

"Last year the long wait time forced 13,000 people to move into permanent residential care. Another 16,000 passed away while waiting for the delivery of approved services.

"I'm very keen to work with the government to find ways and set goals that enable us to cut these delays and plan to eliminate them."

Dr Haines acknowledged Prime Minister Scott Morrison's comment that "increasing the number of home care packages remains one of his government's top priorities".

"It [the government] says it has increased the number of home care packages by 25 per cent - or 25,000 places - in the past year," she said.

"But 129,000 people whose care packages have been approved are still waiting for in-home care to be delivered, as we were told in the House.

"And they're waiting more than 12 months and, in some cases more than 18 months.

"These delays put very significant strains on families and communities.

"In Indi, where 21 per cent of the population is over 65 years of age, daughters, sons, granddaughters ... and friends step in to help people stay in their homes while they wait for in-home care services."

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Following the release of the data on Wednesday, National Seniors Australia chief advocate Ian Henschke released a statement.

"We continue to hear of people dying waiting for the home care package they desperately needed and others ending up in residential care prematurely," he said.

"In the upcoming budget, we hope the government will hear the desperate cries of carers who want some care put back into aged care."

While acknowledging the number of people waiting overall has come down, he called for the government to double the number of level three and four packages.

During the election, Dr Haines said she would push the federal government to commit to delivering home care packages within 90 days of being approved.

Overall, there were 1556 people in a home care package in the Hume region, and 2086 in Riverina-Murray, as at March 31.

The home package program report records a range of data including approved home care providers for each Aged Care Planning Region.