Indigenous Services Canada has confirmed it now has funding available to pay for travel costs so residential school survivors and their family members can continue in-person counselling.

The news comes after mental health counsellors were told last week travel costs would no longer be paid for though the Indian Residential School Resolution Health Support Program.

Indigenous Services Canada told CBC News of the change in an email Wednesday afternoon.

The funding will pay for travel costs in the N.W.T. and Nunavut for the rest of the current fiscal year. It applies to both clients and counsellors.