December 2024 Monthly Newsletter

Featured video:  

KD lives with her mother-in-law Kathleen, who has multiple sclerosis and needs in-home care to help with her daily activities. The WA Cares Fund will help reduce the financial burden of paying for long-term care for families like KD's. Watch KD’s story. 

Webinars:

Join us for our WA Cares Basics: What Workers Need to Know webinar on Jan. 15 from 11 a.m. until noon. We will cover what long-term care includes, how caregiving responsibilities impact families and the workplace, who contributes to the fund, how exemptions work, contribution requirements and more. Register today and stay tuned for our full 2025 webinar schedule.

Find recordings of more past webinars and learn more about upcoming webinars on our website.

Fund Fact: Over 3 million Washington workers are earning WA Cares benefits they can use later in life for in-home care, home modifications, meal delivery, transportation and more. 

Read our year in review to learn more about what we’ve been up to in 2024.  

Monthly FAQ: How can self-employed workers opt-in? 

If you’re self-employed, you can choose to elect coverage and protect yourself with the same affordable benefits available to other Washington workers. Applications became available on July 1, 2023. 

You’ll start contributing to WA Cares the quarter after you elect coverage and then submit your first report when that quarter ends. Your WA Cares contributions will continue until you stop working.  

Interested in learning more? Find 4 reasons why self-employed workers should opt-in or learn more about elective coverage for self-employed people.

Request a speaker:  

Interested in an in-person or virtual presentation on WA Cares for your staff, HR professionals, managers, professional/community organization, or other group in 2025? Fill out our speaker request form we will get back to you with our staff’s availability.