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Weekly costs are very small.
Nevertheless, you must deal with this one way or another. If you hire the person as an employee, you should get the accounting firm who does your tax return to do the payroll for them. They would probably charge less than one of the commercial services.
We also raised mom's personal injury on her homeowner's insurance to $1 million.
If your person is only going to be part time and will have other clients, they *may* qualify as a contractor, and so you would pay them straight hours with no withholding and no reporting and at the end of the year you will need to create a 1099 form to give them (due by the end of Jan the following year). Then it is up to the caregiver to report and pay taxes on the wages. You have to report anything over $600 paid out in a calendar year.
Specific labor rules can vary by state and this is an international forum. It'd be best to hire a bookkeeper or accountant, IMO.
You should explore liability insurance to make sure it would cover a regular worker on your premises. My MIL worked PT for an aid agency and fell backwards off a low stool while cleaning (something that wasn't in her job description for that client) and hit the corner of the wall, breaking several vertebrae. There was no end to physical and financial problems for her after that. So, stuff like that does happen. Best to be covered and make sure you have a written contract that outlines exactly what duties the aid will and will not be expected to perform.
www.irs.gov will give you all you need to know on hiring household employees, what forms to fill out and etc. Basically you are responsible for doing this under the law, and they will tell you what forms to use. You will also need to obey minimum wage laws for your area, and that can come back to bite you years late with penalties.
So those will be the rules. What you do about following the rules is in your own hands.