Voters in the state of Washington rejected a proposal that would have made a payroll tax to fund long-term care optional. The proposal, known as Initiative 2124, failed by an 11-point margin in ...

Now, a first-of-its-kind state payroll tax aims to assist eligible families with a significant challenge — long-term care costs — through a Washington Cares program. Research has shown that ...

(The Center Square) – Democrats in the Washington State Legislature have been ... 2124 to allow workers to opt out of the new long-term care tax. Initiative 2066, which prohibits the state ...

a state-mandated long-term-care insurance program for residents, voluntary instead of mandatory. Workers in Washington ...

A local lawmaker is co-sponsoring a pair of bills that would give some workers in Washington state a reprieve from the long-term care tax. Rep. Joe Schmick, R-Colfax, is co-sponsoring the bills with ...

is spearheading efforts to eliminate the tax. The organization, also fighting Washington’s long-term care payroll tax, recently gained momentum by submitting over 433,000 signatures to the ...

If public long-term care insurance is to be self-sustaining, as it should be, it must be accompanied by some kind of tax ...

WA Cares deducts 58 cents per $100 ... workers had a limited window to provide proof of a private long-term care plan and opt out of the mandatory payroll tax. “There were about a half million ...