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I. How We Work in Washington. Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services. APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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I'm taking care of a family friend for 4 years and want to know who to contact to see if I'm eligible for getting paid, as it's too hard to work full time and do it.
If you type "how to get paid" into the site search you will discover that this is a very popular question with very few good answers. If you want to be paid enough to actually have a decent salary that you can live on I think there are really only two options, draw up a caregiver contract between you and your neighbour and have them pay you OR some people take whatever training is necessary and ask to become employed by a local agency as her caregiver.If you decide to work privately there are good reasons to do it properly so that you are paying proper taxes and deductions, it protects you future pension and it also protects your neighbour from being accused of gifting away large sums of money if they ever need to apply for medicaid in the future.
That was my first question when I found this website 5.5 years ago. Usually the only option is if the person needing care is able to pay you. There are veteran and Medicaid benefits for that person if they are eligible but they would need to qualify. This s the most often asked question on AC, look around you may find other options.
If you begin to work for a home-healthcare agency in order to care for your neighbor the family friend would have to sign a contract with that agency and then the friend would pay them who in turn would pay you. Additionally, you would probably be expected to work other jobs as well as an employee of an agency.
If your family friend has been receiving your services for free he/she is not likely to want to begin paying an agency thousands of dollars a month and by the same token if you've been caring for your friend for free it might be difficult to to get him/her to begin paying you after not paying you for 4 years.
You should be paid for your services. Unfortunately the time to have that conversation was 4 years ago. Has your friend's health declined and that's why it's become more difficult? If that's the case it would make a valid point.
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
A.
I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
B.
APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
C.
APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
D.
If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
E.
This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
F.
You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
If you want to be paid enough to actually have a decent salary that you can live on I think there are really only two options, draw up a caregiver contract between you and your neighbour and have them pay you OR some people take whatever training is necessary and ask to become employed by a local agency as her caregiver.If you decide to work privately there are good reasons to do it properly so that you are paying proper taxes and deductions, it protects you future pension and it also protects your neighbour from being accused of gifting away large sums of money if they ever need to apply for medicaid in the future.
That was my first question when I found this website 5.5 years ago. Usually the only option is if the person needing care is able to pay you. There are veteran and Medicaid benefits for that person if they are eligible but they would need to qualify. This s the most often asked question on AC, look around you may find other options.
If your family friend has been receiving your services for free he/she is not likely to want to begin paying an agency thousands of dollars a month and by the same token if you've been caring for your friend for free it might be difficult to to get him/her to begin paying you after not paying you for 4 years.
You should be paid for your services. Unfortunately the time to have that conversation was 4 years ago. Has your friend's health declined and that's why it's become more difficult? If that's the case it would make a valid point.