Pack the Court! Save CDPAP!
Start: Friday, April 04, 2025•10:00 AM
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Come and support the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program as the court considers extending a delay of the deadline forcing people to register with private equity payroll company, PPL!
The judge pays attention when people who care about the issue show up.
10AM: Press conference outside the courthouse
10:30AM: Go thru security to enter courthouse, note you will have to give up your phone while there
11AM: Court hearing (hard to know exactly how long! plan for 2 hours. If you can't stay the whole time, it's ok!)
MORE BACKGROUND:
200,000 home care recipients in a popular Medicaid home care program (CDPAP) are at imminent risk of losing their services and 300,000 home care workers will lose their jobs due to a controversial change to the program that was passed in last year's state budget and was implemented on April 1st.
This pivotal class action court case could help prevent people from losing home care and caregiver jobs.
CONTEXT:
- The consumer-directed personal assistance program (CDPAP) is a popular medicaid home care program that allows New Yorkers to hire a loved one, a friend or someone of their own choosing to provide their home care.
- There are approximately 600 fiscal intermediaries (FIs) in New York who provide support services and payroll for this program. They are mostly local, community-based organizations, including Independent Living Centers that originated the CDPAP program.
- In the final week of last year's state budget negotiations, the Governor pushed through a last minute plan that would consolidate payroll for this program to a single "fiscal intermediary" in just a three month period - between Jan 6 and April 1st, 2025.
- The state selected a for-profit, private-equity backed company called Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) as the single FI.
- After March 31, there is NO entity to pay workers other than PPL.
- PPL has been kicked out of five other states for contract violations and failure to pay workers.
- 10% or fewer of NY's 425,000 Personal Assistants are "payroll ready" in PPL's system due to their glitchy online system and overwhelmed, poorly staffed call center
- Thousands of workers who had done EVERYTHING to sign up completely tried to clock in with PPL on April 1st and received various error messages.
- On Monday, March 31st a federal judge placed a temporary restraining order on the Department of Health, preventing them from shutting down the former fiscal intermediaries until Friday, April 4th, to ensure a safety net to pay workers during the transition to PPL. The former FIs now need to re-instate their service authorizations.
- On Friday, April 4th the judge will consider extending the delay by several months - join us to pack the court!
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