For LCSWs, LMSWs and every other state title adding a state, moving, or upgrading to a clinical license: endorsement or full application in every state, ASWB exam approval, and the renewals that follow.
We handle the paperwork, the verifications and the board follow-up so you can keep seeing clients.
More than thirty states have joined the Social Work Compact. None is issuing multistate licenses yet. What that means for you, and what to do now →
We map where you are licensed, at which level, where you live, where your clients are and when you need to start. Then we sort every target state into a route: license by endorsement, or a full application. We check what stalls social work files before you spend a non-refundable fee: your degree's CSWE accreditation, which ASWB exam you passed against what the state asks for at your level, and whether your supervised clinical hours are documented the way that board wants.
We file and drive everything that has to arrive alongside the application: transcripts sent by your program, your ASWB score transfer, verifications from every board you have held a license with, supervisor attestations, fingerprints and any state law exam. Where you still need to test, we get the board's exam approval through and register you for the right ASWB level. All of it runs in parallel, not one step at a time.
Every license renews on its own date with its own continuing-education rules. We keep one calendar for all of them and log CE against each state's requirements. We also watch the Social Work Compact: when the Commission opens multistate licensing, we tell you whether your home-state license qualifies and which of your separate licenses you can stop renewing.
35 jurisdictions have enacted the Social Work Compact, but no multistate license has been issued yet, so every state takes its own license for now. Pick a state to see where it stands and what it takes to practice there today.
Social workers at every level and under every state title: bachelor's licenses (LBSW, LSW), master's licenses (LMSW, LGSW, LCSW-A), and clinical licenses (LCSW, LICSW, LISW, LCSW-C and the rest). Professional counselors are served by our sister team at whiteglovecounseling.com, and marriage and family therapists at whiteglovemft.com.
An agreement among member states that will let a social worker hold one multistate license, issued by their home state, that covers every member state. It works like the nurse compact, not like the per-state privileges of the Counseling Compact. Where it stands.
No. More than thirty states have enacted it, but as of October 2026 the Commission had not issued a single multistate license; its data system was still being built. Until it opens, every state where you see clients needs its own license.
Not if you have clients there now. Practicing without the state license is practicing without a license, and the Compact has no firm opening date. License where you need to today; when the Compact opens, you can decide which separate licenses to keep.
Most states offer licensure by endorsement for a social worker licensed elsewhere at the same level, often with a years-of-practice requirement. Others, including California, evaluate the file in full. California, New York, Texas, Florida and Illinois were not Compact members in October 2026.
Usually not, if you passed the exam the new state requires at the level you are applying for. Your score is transferred from ASWB. The catch is level: a Masters exam does not satisfy a state asking for the Clinical exam for its clinical license.
Finish the supervised clinical hours your state requires, typically around 3,000 over two or more years with a set number of supervision hours, document them with your supervisor, pass the ASWB Clinical exam if your state requires it, and apply for the upgrade. We assemble and file that application.
Often, but not automatically. Each board decides whether hours earned elsewhere count and whether your supervisor met its standards. Get your current supervisor to document your hours before you leave; we check them against the new state first.
No. Licensure and payer enrollment are separate processes. Clinical social workers can bill Medicare, but enrollment is its own application in each state. Credentialing with Medicare and commercial payers is handled at whiteglovecredentialing.com.
Endorsement runs on the board's queue, typically weeks to a few months. A full application, especially one that needs exam approval first, takes longer. Start before you need it, not when a job offer arrives.
Almost always waiting on someone else: a transcript from a program that has merged, a verification from a board that mails paper, or a supervisor attestation from someone you have lost touch with. We chase those third parties and keep the board file complete so it does not sit.
Either. Most social workers come to us for one state and stay for renewals, because every license has its own renewal date and continuing-education rules. We track all of it on one calendar.
White Glove Social Work takes the paperwork out of licensing for social workers. We run it end to end: transcripts from your CSWE-accredited program, your ASWB score sent to the new board, verification of every license you have held, supervisor attestations for your clinical hours, and the state law exam where one is required.
The Social Work Compact will change the map, but it has not yet. More than thirty states have enacted it, and none was issuing multistate licenses as of October 2026. California, New York, Texas, Florida and Illinois have not joined at all. So we license you in the states where your clients are now, and keep your home-state file ready for the day the Compact opens.
From intake to issued license, we screen eligibility before you pay a non-refundable fee, carry the board correspondence, and keep every renewal and continuing-education deadline on one calendar so nothing lapses underneath you.
Licensing delays have real costs — a start date missed, a caseload that cannot open, a payer contract that stalls behind a credential.
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multistate licenses issued so far
More than thirty states have enacted the Social Work Compact, but as of October 2026 the Commission had issued no multistate license. Every state where you see clients still needs its own license.
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ASWB exam levels
Bachelors, Masters, Advanced Generalist and Clinical. Which one a state wants at which license level differs, and some states have dropped the exam for some levels. We check yours before you pay a board.
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the law that brought clinical social workers into Medicare
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 made clinical social workers Medicare providers, enrolled state by state. Each state you practice in needs its own license first, and that is the part we do.
"Practicing across state lines looks simple from the outside: send the license, start work. In practice it is a chain of dependencies — a transcript that has to travel from a registrar rather than from you, an ASWB score at the wrong level for the new state, a supervisor from years ago who has to sign off on your hours. Any one of them can cost a social worker a quarter. We built White Glove Social Work to hold that whole chain so clinicians do not have to."
Our own words, not a client's. We will publish client testimonials when we have clients who agree to be named.
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