Individuals who worked as personal assistants paid through Public Partnerships LLC for services performed as part of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program in New York City, Nassau County, Suffolk County or Westchester County at any time between March 1, 2025, and April 30, 2026, may be eligible to receive a cash payment from a class action settlement.
Read MoreIn late June, PPL agreed to pay $162 million to settle allegations that it systematically underpaid nearly 200,000 home health aides in New York. The settlement is the result of a class-action lawsuit alleging that PPL mismanaged payments after taking over New York’s Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).
Read MoreThere should be no place in our healthcare system for profit over care. And no place for corrupt politicians making backroom deals with people’s lives and well-being at stake. What we need is a return to the original intent of CDPAP. Run by responsible non-profits, with input from disabled people themselves.
Read MoreBut last year, this program was taken from us when the Governor fired all the local companies that managed it and handed CDPAP to one private equity- backed company, PPL. Advocates like me told the Governor about our serious concerns, yet she still went through with this ill-conceived transition.
Read More"Lawmakers seem to forget that, along with death and taxes, disability is a certainty in life." – Caring Majority Organizer, Larissa Martin, on the Trump DOJ Olmstead memo
Read MoreI am disabled. I rely on home care workers to help me get through each day — getting dressed, preparing meals, and maintaining the basic dignity that so many people take for granted. Some of those workers are Haitian immigrants — as are my parents. And now my caregivers are one step closer to being deported.
Read MorePublic Partnerships (PPL), the company that operates New York’s home care program, has reached an agreement to settle a $162 million class action wage theft lawsuit from over 200,000 downstate home assistants.
Eastern District of New York Magistrate Judge Lara K. Eshkenazi gave preliminary approval for the settlement to move forward in a hearing on July 1. If Senior Judge Frederic Block gives final approval, it is set to be one of the largest class action settlements over lost wages in New York history.
Read MoreThe deal could benefit 200,000 aides, and includes at least $25 million to compensate for wage deductions that New York Focus extensively reported on.
Read MoreThe company behind the rocky overhaul of a massive home health care service in New York has agreed to pay out $160 million to thousands of workers as part of a class-action settlement over unpaid wages.
Read MoreAs she seeks re-election in November, Hochul faces a choice: She can take her chances trying to defend this undeniably ugly set of facts in court – and on the campaign trail. Or she can admit mistakes, clean house, order a new bidding process – and recommit to fighting fraud instead of condoning it.
Read MoreA scathing Justice Department lawsuit over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s consolidation of a popular Medicaid home care program paints the picture of a transition so troubled that workers inside and outside of state government repeatedly sounded the alarm — seemingly to no avail.
Read MoreThe Justice Department accused officials of failing to police a vendor it said had siphoned off millions of dollars. A spokeswoman for Gov. Kathy Hochul called the suit an attempt to weaponize the justice system.
Read MoreAdvocates, home care workers, and elected officials gathered in Brooklyn’s Little Haiti to raise concerns about the future of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and what they say could be the consequences for New York’s health care system if protections are terminated.
Read MoreAs many Haitian immigrants work in health care, advocates say the outcome could have major consequences for home care workers and patients who rely on them.
Read MoreIf budgets are "moral documents," what does it mean that the New York State budget, passed in the wee hours of Thursday morning, leaves 450,000 New Yorkers without health insurance coverage and severely delays the state's response to the climate crisis?
Read MoreROCHESTER, N.Y. — CDPAP enrollees, home care workers and advocates criticized the healthcare plan offered by Public Partnerships, LLC, also known as PPL, on Wednesday.
Read MoreALBANY, N.Y. (WNYT) — Home care workers, consumers and advocates rallied in Albany on Thursday for more transparency and oversight of the state’s CDPAP home care program.
Read MoreIt was a cold Thursday in February, even with a warm sun blazing through Western New York’s arctic skies. In Buffalo, you take what you can get. But like warm weather in winter, what you get often isn’t enough...Such is the story for home care workers and consumers in Western New York.
Read MoreLawmakers want to empower the state Legislature following an investigation into Gov. Kathy Hochul’s changes to a $9 billion Medicaid home care program.
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