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Across the US, family members caring for loved ones provide an estimated $600 billion in unpaid care each year, sacrificing time, money, and often their well-being to care for aging loved ones ...
Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy "2 pounds of ham" are wrong. In fact, the contract in question purchased 760,000 pounds of ham for $1.191 million, at a cost of approximately $1.50 per pound." [87] As of 2016, the servers for recovery.gov have been shut down and the site is unavailable. [88]
The value of the voluntary, "unpaid" caregiving service provided by caregivers was estimated at $310 billion in 2006 — almost twice as much as was actually spent on home care and nursing services combined. [2] By 2009, about 61.6 million caregivers were providing "unpaid" care at a value that had increased to an estimated $450 billion. [4]
The Care Act 2014, which received royal assent on 14 May 2014, and came into effect on 1 April 2015, [29] strengthens the rights and recognition of carers in the social care system; including, for the first time, giving carers a clear right to receive services, even if the person they care for does not receive local authority funding. [30]
Women provided about $113 billion worth of unpaid care in 2022, estimates Wells Fargo. And when women aren’t outright leaving the labor force to take on this duty, they’re working fewer hours.
Medical debt for older Americans with health insurance is on the rise. New research published by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Office for Older Americans finds that while most ...
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