- Letting every facilitator see confidential personal assistant information, including social security numbers, even if that facilitator did not have a relationship with the PA or their consumer.
- Making those who speak languages other than English listen to a message in English to determine how to get to a translator, only to connect them with the wrong translator (one consumer who speaks Spanish was connected to an Italian translator).
- Refusing to share with PAs what their wages and benefits will be, in seeming violation of the wage transparency act.
- Celebrating that they started processing 5,000 consumers applications in the first 10 days, when to successfully enroll everyone by March 31, they will need to complete about 12,500 per day.
This is a disaster, but we can still stop it . Senator Gustavo Rivera & Assembly Member Al Stirpe have sponsored legislation that would get rid of the system that brought PPL to NY and, instead, put in place a common sense program to license fiscal intermediaries over the next two years. This will ensure fiscal intermediaries are held accountable for operating the program correctly and in compliance with the law; but also make sure there are no disruptions in services. Most importantly, this legislation will keep consumer choice in CDPAP - unlike the looming monopoly disaster that is currently happening under Governor Hochul and PPL.
The licensure bill number is A.2735/S.1189.
We can and will win this fight, but we need your voice to do it. Call your Assembly member and your Senator TODAY.