This article presents the results of a qualitative research focusing on the fragility of the symbolic and material home health care work conditions in New Brunswick. In the context of health care and social service policy development in the province, the government wishes to establish the home health care sector as the cornerstone of the province’s health care system with a view to keeping seniors at home as long as possible. In so doing, the service delivery model developed involves hiring home caregivers, thus creating female overrepresentation in this activity sector. In New Brunswick, women working in this sector are subject to precarious working conditions that keep them in poverty. Findings reveal that women workers’ insecurity is exacerbated by difficult material conditions. Pay, work schedule, social benefits, and work-related expenses and costs are among the factors perpetuating their precarious condition. And yet, these women play a crucial role in society inasmuch as through the caregiving service that they provide, they assume professional responsibilities that are essential to maintaining social bonds. Consequently, an entire system is complicit in these women’s impoverishment, an entire system withholds the material and symbolic recognition of their contribution.