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      <title>Social Work Compact Status, October 2026: 35 States, Zero Licenses</title>
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      <description>A dated snapshot of the Social Work Licensure Compact as of October 8, 2026: which states have enacted it, why no social worker holds a multistate license yet, what the Commission has finished, and what still stands between the law and the first application.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Holding Both an LCSW and an LPC</title>
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      <description>Some clinicians hold a clinical social work license and a counseling license at once. A second credential can open a different compact, a different Medicare category or a job that names one license. It also doubles renewals and CE. When it helps and when it is just overhead.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CSWE Accreditation and Your Social Work License</title>
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      <description>Social work boards license graduates of accredited programs, and in the United States that means CSWE. Why the requirement exists, how candidacy status works if your program was new, what online programs mean for licensure, and the CSWE review route for degrees earned outside the United States.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Clients on Vacation or Away at College</title>
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      <description>A two-week trip or a semester away puts your client in another state, and that state&apos;s licensing law. New York allows nothing. Maryland&apos;s new exemption is built for relocation, not vacations. California allows 30 days. How to handle travel and college students, and what to say at intake.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Virtual Supervision Toward the LCSW</title>
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      <description>Some boards count video supervision as face-to-face, some cap it, and New York still wants supervision in person. A state-by-state look at what counts, the technical conditions boards attach, and how to document virtual supervision so it survives an application review.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>LCSW-S, LISW-S and Board-Approved Supervisors</title>
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      <description>Several states require the person supervising your clinical hours to hold a board supervisor designation on top of a clinical license. What Texas, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania require of supervisors, and why a supervisee should check before the first session.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When a Client Moves to Another State</title>
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      <description>A client is relocating and wants to keep working with you. Your options are a planned transition, a license in the new state, or a short-term continuity allowance if that state has one. How to choose, what Maryland, Utah and California now allow, and how to document it.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>School Social Worker Certification vs. a Social Work License</title>
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      <description>School social work is usually credentialed by a state&apos;s education department, not its social work board. The two credentials are separate, have separate rules, and do not substitute for each other. When you need one, the other or both.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The ASWB Advanced Generalist Exam and Where It Counts</title>
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      <description>The Advanced Generalist is ASWB&apos;s exam for experienced, non-clinical master&apos;s social workers. Which states use it, which refuse it in place of the Clinical, how it fares at endorsement, and how the Social Work Compact&apos;s exam rule treats it.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Running a Multistate LCSW Private Practice</title>
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      <description>A telehealth practice that serves clients in several states carries a license, a CE plan and often a payer enrollment for each one. How to decide which states to add, what each addition really costs in time, and the operating habits that keep a multistate practice out of trouble.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When Can Social Workers Apply for a Multistate License?</title>
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      <description>Not before the Commission&apos;s data system is finished, which it estimates for spring 2027, and then only when your own home state is connected and ready. How the 2026 targets slipped, what the Inspiring Apps build involves, why FBI fingerprint authorization can lag, and why states will go live unevenly.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Documenting Supervision So the Board Accepts It</title>
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      <description>Supervised hours count only if a board can verify them, usually on its own form and usually signed by the supervisor. What to log, who keeps the records, how New York, Texas and Ohio handle verification, and what to do when a supervisor retires, moves or dies before signing.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Transfer an LCSW License to Another State</title>
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      <description>You cannot transfer a social work license. You apply for a new one in the other state, usually by endorsement, and the new board decides whether your education, exam, experience and record meet its rules. What every board asks for, how requirements differ, and the documents that cause most delays.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Moving to a New Home State With a Multistate License</title>
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      <description>The Commission&apos;s home-state-change rule, adopted September 9, 2026, gives you 30 calendar days after establishing domicile in another member state to apply there, requires you to keep the old license active until the new one issues, and lets the new state require its jurisprudence exam. Moving to a non-member state ends the compact route.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The New York &quot;R&quot; Privilege: What Changed in 2023</title>
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      <description>Chapter 818 of the Laws of 2022 removed the extra three years of supervised experience New York LCSWs needed for the &quot;R&quot; psychotherapy privilege. Since January 1, 2023 NYSED takes no R applications, existing holders keep the letter, and the Insurance Law no longer requires it.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Multistate License Is Not a Privilege to Practice</title>
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      <description>The Social Work Compact uses one multistate license that covers every member state, the way the nurse compact does. Some other behavioral health compacts grant permission state by state. The difference changes what you apply for, what you pay and what happens when you move.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What the Social Work Compact Will Cost</title>
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      <description>The Commission adopted its fee rule on September 9, 2026: a $20 administrative fee for each multistate license transaction, plus a fee every member state sets for itself. No state had published its fee by early October 2026. Here is what is known and what is not.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Moving Mid-Supervision: Will Your Hours Count?</title>
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      <description>Clinical hours earned in one state can usually count in another, but only if the setting, the supervisor and the paperwork meet the new board&apos;s rules. How New York, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, California and others treat out-of-state hours, and the documents to collect before you leave.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Renewing Social Work Licenses in Several States</title>
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      <description>Every state renews on its own schedule: birth months, birthdays, fixed odd-year dates, two-year and three-year cycles. Holding three or four licenses means a renewal or CE deadline nearly every season. A practical system for keeping every license active without paying late fees.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Which States Make Social Workers Pass a Law Exam</title>
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      <description>Some states require a jurisprudence or law-and-ethics exam on their own statutes and rules before they license a social worker, including one already licensed elsewhere. The states we confirmed, how each exam is delivered, and how to fit it into an endorsement without adding weeks.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>States That Dropped the ASWB Exam for Some Licenses</title>
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      <description>Since 2022 several states have removed, suspended or offered alternatives to the ASWB exam, mostly for bachelor&apos;s and master&apos;s licenses. Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Connecticut, what each changed, and the catch when you later move or want a multistate license.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>California, New York, Texas and the Other Holdouts</title>
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      <description>The Social Work Compact will never cover a client in a state that has not joined, and as of October 2026 the largest states had not. Bill-by-bill status for California, New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and what each requires of an out-of-state social worker instead.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Can an LMSW Bill Insurance?</title>
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      <description>Not Medicare, not under their own name. Medicaid and commercial plans vary by state and by contract, and most of the ways an LMSW&apos;s work gets paid run through a supervisor, an agency or a physician practice. A short guide to who can bill for what.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The ASWB Pass-Rate Data and Why States Reacted</title>
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      <description>In August 2022 ASWB published first-time pass rates by race, age and primary language for the first time. The gaps were large, NASW came out against the exams, Illinois had already dropped one, and ASWB rebuilt its exams. What the numbers say and what they mean for someone testing in 2026.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is the Social Work Compact in 33 States or 35?</title>
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      <description>The Commission&apos;s member page lists 33 states and its own news says 35. Both are right: New Mexico and South Carolina enacted the compact with material changes from the model law, and those versions may have to be fixed before either state can take part.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reinstating a Lapsed Social Work License</title>
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      <description>Late renewal, reinstatement and reapplication are three different things, and the line between them is set by how long the license has been expired. In some states, waiting too long means a new ASWB exam or a brand-new application. How to tell where you stand and what to do first.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Health Behavior Assessment Codes for Social Workers</title>
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      <description>Medicare lets clinical social workers bill the health behavior assessment and intervention codes, which cover the psychological and behavioral side of a physical health condition. For social workers in primary care, cardiology or oncology, they fit work that psychotherapy codes describe poorly.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Social Work Licensing for Military Spouses</title>
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      <description>Military spouses who are social workers have a federal license portability law, state military-spouse provisions, and, once it is live, a compact rule that lets them keep one home state through every move. How each works, what the federal application requires, and when a separate license is still the faster route.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Get a Second Social Work License Now or Wait for the Compact?</title>
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      <description>A decision framework for social workers with clients, or prospective clients, in another state: how soon you need to practice there, whether that state and your home state are compact members, your license category, and what waiting actually costs you.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Michigan&apos;s LMSW: Clinical vs. Macro Designation</title>
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      <description>Michigan has no LCSW. Its top license is the LMSW, issued with a clinical designation, a macro designation or both, each requiring 4,000 supervised hours and its own ASWB exam. How the system works, how a second designation is added, and how other states read a Michigan LMSW.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Medicare Will Not Pay Clinical Social Workers For</title>
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      <description>The Medicare clinical social worker benefit has carve-outs that catch practices off guard: hospital inpatients, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, patients in a Part A skilled nursing stay, and some dialysis-facility work. Counselors and MFTs, unlike CSWs, can still bill Part B for skilled nursing residents.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>LCSW Private Practice: The Licensing Checklist Before Your First Client</title>
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      <description>Before a solo or group social work practice sees its first client, the license level, supervision rules, practice location, NPI and business registration all have to line up. A checklist in the order we work through it, with the state rules that most often trip new practice owners.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sending ASWB Scores to Another State</title>
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      <description>A passing ASWB score travels to any board that uses the same exam category, but only when you order the transfer. The fee, the timing, how to order it, and the separate license and experience verifications most boards want alongside it.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CE When You Hold Social Work Licenses in Several States</title>
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      <description>Most social work CE can count toward more than one license, but each state adds its own mandatory topics, provider rules and live-hour minimums. A reference to the requirements in eleven large jurisdictions, how to build one plan that satisfies all of them, and how audits work.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Medicare for Clinical Social Workers: Who Qualifies, What It Pays, How to Enroll</title>
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      <description>Clinical social workers have their own Medicare benefit, created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989. It pays 75% of the clinical psychologist fee schedule amount, requires assignment, and is tied to a clinical license in the state where the patient is. What qualifies, what does not, and how enrollment works across states.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Finding and Paying for Clinical Supervision</title>
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      <description>About a quarter of clinical social workers paid for their own supervision, according to ASWB. Employer-provided versus private supervision, what to put in a supervision agreement, and the states, New York above all, where hiring your own supervisor is restricted or tied to your employer.</description>
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      <description>The District of Columbia issues four social work licenses, and only the LICSW allows independent clinical practice. Endorsement is straightforward for clinicians licensed by exam elsewhere. For practices in Maryland and Virginia, DC clients are where licensing gaps show up first.</description>
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      <description>Almost every out-of-state social work application needs proof from your other boards that your license is real, current and clean. How boards verify each other, why the method and cost differ from board to board, and why a missing verification stalls more files than anything else.</description>
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      <description>Massachusetts uses LCSW for its master&apos;s-level license, the Licensed Certified Social Worker, and reserves independent clinical practice for the LICSW. What each Massachusetts title allows under 258 CMR, and how the mismatch trips up clinicians moving in or out of the state.</description>
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      <description>Michigan has no LCSW. Clinicians are licensed as master&apos;s social workers with a clinical designation, which requires 4,000 supervised hours earned on a Michigan limited license. Ten years of master&apos;s-level practice elsewhere opens an endorsement route; anyone short of that documents 4,000 hours.</description>
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      <description>Pennsylvania licenses the LBSW, LSW and LCSW, and it has a dedicated endorsement rule for clinical social workers licensed elsewhere. The compact bill passed the House but is still pending, so the endorsement route is the way in for now.</description>
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      <description>ASWB requires 90 days between attempts, with a waiver possible if you came within 10 points and your board allows it. Boards add their own rules on approvals and attempt limits. What happens to a failed score, and the few states that now offer a route around a repeated fail.</description>
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      <description>An endorsement application is a chain of steps, each controlled by someone different: other boards, ASWB, your school, the fingerprint vendor, your old supervisor and the new board&apos;s reviewers. The total is set by the slowest link. Stage by stage, with the few published turnaround times we could confirm.</description>
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      <description>Most states want about 3,000 post-MSW hours over at least two years with about 100 hours of supervision, but the outliers run from Florida&apos;s 1,500 psychotherapy hours to Michigan&apos;s 4,000 and Minnesota&apos;s 4,000-plus. A state-by-state reference to the hours, supervision minimums and calendar limits we verified, as of October 2026.</description>
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      <description>Maryland&apos;s clinical license is the LCSW-C. Out-of-state clinicians with five years of clinical practice have a short route; others document hours and supervision. Maryland issues no temporary license, but its rules allow limited practice while a complete application is pending.</description>
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      <description>The Social Work Compact runs everything through one home state: the member state of your primary domicile. Where you work, where your license came from and where most of your clients live do not decide it. Here is how the rule works and the situations where it trips people up.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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