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Protecting IHSS and our loved ones in 2019

UDW caregivers are strong advocates for our IHSS clients – seniors and people with disabilities. That’s why every year we

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March IHSS News You Can Use

Protect Our Care This year UDW caregivers have vowed to fight, protect, and win for our clients and each other.

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Treating all work with dignity this Labor Day

It’s Labor Day weekend. For many Americans that means a three-day weekend to eat barbecue and enjoy the last days

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Caregivers to Gov. Brown: We deserve Social Security (and more)

Yesterday, UDW caregivers from around the state gathered in Sacramento to urge Governor Brown to sign Assembly Bill 1930. We

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What we’re doing to fix Labor Day IHSS paycheck delays

Delayed paychecks, no matter the reason, cause headaches and frustration for IHSS caregivers. When many of our checks from June

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UDW Legislative Update: Winning dignity for home care workers and our clients

UDW is a union for home care providers by home care providers, which means we are committed to the issues

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Caregivers demand equal Social Security and unemployment benefits, deliver petitions to Governor Brown

For Immediate Release Thursday, August 25, 2016 Contact: Margitte Kristjansson, 619-548-4304 California home care providers who care for their spouse

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Caregivers win audit of IHSS payroll system

Yesterday, UDW caregivers joined Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez at a Joint Legislative Audit Committee hearing at the Capitol to request an

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Update on our work to improve the IHSS payroll system

Late paychecks and timesheets impact our ability to provide for ourselves and our families. Many UDW caregivers have expressed frustrations

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Important update: New overtime exemption for providers with multiple clients

For the last two years, UDW has been urging the state to develop a special exemptions process to ensure that

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Working Californians win the Fight for $15

April 4, 2016 Today, we took a big step forward in our fight for justice for home care workers and

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Take advantage of FREE tax prep & find out if you qualify for the CA Earned Income Tax Credit

The deadline for filing our IRS tax returns – Monday, April 18th – is approaching. And this year, a new

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Important tax update for IHSS providers who live with their clients (IRS notice 2014-7)

UPDATE – 11/3/2016: According to the latest guidance from the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), wages received by Waiver Personal

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Important dates and forms for the new IHSS timesheet rules

The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has made changes to IHSS program rules related to the 2016 implementation of

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Good news for IHSS parent and grandparent providers!

Overtime for IHSS providers was a hard fought, much deserved victory for us all. Finally, after decades of exclusion from

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Merced County home care provider and client win hundreds of additional IHSS hours with the help of UDW Advocacy Council

My name is Vera Galinha, and I’m an IHSS home care provider for my partner in Los Banos, CA. I’ve

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