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‘We are just working to live at the moment’ – social workers on the cost of living crisis

Community Care

Some were going into debt to manage rising costs, whether through credit cards, overdrafts or borrowing from friends and family. One said: Our bills now cost more than my wife’s and my monthly income each month, meaning we are just getting into more debt each month with no chance to change that.” No money for leisure.

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NQSW: ‘I get to the end of the second week after being paid and don’t have any money’

Community Care

The mother of three, the main earner in their family, with their partner earning half as much as them, previously had to borrow money from their parents to travel for work. To avoid that, they are now £1,200 in debt, using a credit card to cover travel costs, as most of their salary goes on childcare, rent and essentials for the children.

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Most social workers out of pocket from inadequate mileage allowances, survey finds

Community Care

Newly qualified social worker Clare previously borrowed money from her parents to afford travelling for work, but was now in debt, using a credit card to cover her travel costs, providing for her three children and childcare. I get into the end of the second week after being paid and I don’t have any money.

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Cost of living crisis ‘severely’ hitting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, social workers warn

Community Care

The cost of living crisis is ‘severely’ affecting people accessing children’s and adults’ services, fuelling a host of issues including poverty, debt, mental ill-health and domestic conflict, social workers have warned. Half of foster carers considering quitting due to cost of living crisis, finds survey.

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William Elliott III on President Biden’s New Student Loan Forgiveness Program

Michigan Social Work

“For those who have received a degree and come out with debt, this is going to strengthen the return on the degree,” he said. The money they are making from having gone to college will benefit them far more by not having all this debt on them for really years and years — decades even.”

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Increasing qualification levels, linked to pay, under consideration in adult social care workforce strategy

Community Care

With an election due by January 2024, Pearson said the steering group was engaging with the major political parties to understand their thinking on the adult social care workforce. As providers must ensure staff receive at least the NLW (now £11.44

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Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program Helps Social Workers, Others With Student Loan Debt

Social Work Blog

In June, Madeline Howe had $40,000 in student loan debt she was paying on loans for a master’s degree in social work. Once she found a job, it still took her almost three years to become financially stable enough to submit her monthly payments to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to eventually qualify for debt forgiveness. . “I