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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. Coverage must be elected by June 30, 2026, or within three years of becoming self-employed for the first time.

You'll start contributing to WA Cares the quarter after you elect coverage and then submit your first report when that quarter ends. Like all working Washingtonians, your WA Cares contributions will continue until you retire or are no longer self-employed.

We will cover how the program works, how to define a self-employed worker, creating am elective coverage account, how to opt-in and reporting requirements.
 

More than 800,000 Washingtonians provide care to a loved one. Many of us provide care out of both necessity and love, and do so without thinking twice. Whether you’re picking up groceries for your neighbor or helping your dad manage his medications—you are a caregiver.

If the person you're caring for has earned WA Cares Fund benefits, you can  become their paid caregiver, even if you're caring for your own spouse. 

We will cover: 
•    How the program works
•    Who is eligible for paid family caregiving
•    How WA Cares can help with care needs 
•    Steps to becoming a paid family caregiver
•    Additional support and services available
•    Resources for caregivers