Social Work Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP By Heather Rose Artushin, LISW-CP As social workers, we often embark upon this professional journey with a heart for helping people to live well. But what if dying well was a conversation that was never meant to be saved for the end of life? Ronald L. Riffel, retired social worker and board member of the Center for Conscious Living and Dying (CCLD) in North Carolina, initially responded to a call for volunteers to sit with people who were dying, in what he describe

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2024

Karina Moon, who is sole carer for her daughter most of the week, was told she needed to repay £11,292.75 or be prosecuted for fraud Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules Carers in the UK: have you been threatened with prosecution for benefit fraud? Karina Moon vividly recalls the telephone call that brought her to tears.

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2024

A council’s benefits expert and a tribunal judge, plus other readers, respond to reports on how the DWP is persecuting carers for unwittingly breaching complicated benefits rules I have worked in benefits for more years than I care to admit, although for local authorities rather than the Department for Work and Pensions. The news about the persecution of carer’s allowance claimants is not surprising ( Calls to end ‘persecution’ of carers over UK benefits rule breaches, 9 April ).

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The Guardian

APRIL 12, 2024

Commonwealth requests Fair Work Commission phase in full 23% increase over two years to prevent workforce shortages elsewhere Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Aged care workers should wait until January 2026 for the full 23% pay rise ordered by the Fair Work Commission , according to the Albanese government.

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