Adele Hibbert from Worthing, West Sussex, worked for the NHS and said the extra money was long overdue.
She said the challenges she had faced included being “short staffed constantly, instead of having six patients you’d be looking after 12”.
The Chancellor announced £1.3 billion of extra grant money for councils, providing what she called a “significant real-terms funding increase” for local government.
Tim Oliver, leader of Conservative-controlled Surrey County Council and chairman of the County Councils Network, said the money “does not eradicate councils’ funding gap” as local authorities would also incur “significant additional expense due to the increase in the National Living Wage”.
He added: “Therefore, councils will have little choice but to raise council tax and still will need to take difficult decisions over services to balance their budgets.”
But Bella Sankey, leader of Labour-run Brighton & Hove City Council, said: “The measures will not solve all our problems overnight, but it does signify an important change in approach from the new government to addressing the root causes of problems such as housing supply.”
