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) – Initiative 2124, which would allow Washington workers to opt out of the mandatory payroll tax that ...

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

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 ...

In November, Washington State voters defeated a ballot measure that would have significantly undermined the nation’s first social insurance program for long-term care by a surprisingly comfortable 55 ...