Hochul Governor To a single administrator, Hochul’s office should lead to the “run away cost”.
Just before the closing date of April 1, hundreds of companies can stop the management of the consumer -oriented personal support program (CDPAP) and take over the company’s public partnership LLC.
Unions representing about 10,000 CDPAP home care workers throughout the state join the wave of industrial and consumer groups that call to slow or stop switches.
This program registration, in which the elderly and the disabled can choose their own paid caregivers, have been swelling in recent years. Last year, the state cost was over $ 12 billion. The state said that if more than 700 companies, known as financial brokers, from a single manager, they will save tens of millions of dollars and interfere with fraud.
However, the union, which supports the idea of switching to a single manager, has not yet joined a new company, and the Governor has urged to sign an administrative order so that financial brokers can continue to continue to prevent nursing and salaries.
George Gesham, chairman of the 1199Seiu, said in a statement, “There must be an immediate and urgent measure to ease confusion for the workers who take care of the weekly after April 10 before April 10,” George Gesham said in a statement.
Union has been issued Recommendation Aiming to improve consumer volunteer activities and comply with public partnerships. State of the state’s industrial wage.
Thursday, State Health Department Sayed About 150,000 consumers have already started or completed registered with PPL.
In the statement, Hochul spokesman SAM SPOKONY said the state will be kicked out of the deadline. “Hundreds of thousands of CDPAP consumers and workers have already taken action as part of the weekly transition, which remains on April 1.” “The state has made this progress despite the waves of wrong information by certain companies trying to interfere with the transition to protect their interests.”
Last year, Hochul called the financial brokerage system as “racket” and CDPAP “one of the most abused programs in New York.”
Since last year, Hochul has since proposed to transform it as part of a $ 233 billion state budget. suit From fiscal mediators and consumers who want to stop the acquisition. Some of the companies that are planning to lose their CDPAP business have advocated to stop the transition with the US 1199 competitive labor union.
Public partnership, selected In October, it was intense investigation by the Hochul administration.
New York Focus Reported This week, the health insurance manager was convicted of submitting a forged document to the Congress, and home nursing employers based in New York helped to compensate for home nursing workers beyond the minimum wage.
As the deadline approached on April 1, the group opposing the CDPAP conversion raised the heat of the Hochul administration, and held a regular protest in the State Capitol and pushed her as a drawing board.
The majority of New York caring, the union of organizations that have long opposing switches, said that it was never too late to support the reversal of 1199.
“Time is approaching: After a few months of caring, 1199seiu finally admitted that consumers and workers knew what they knew.
Some lawmakers were more powerful.
Senator Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) said, “Senator Gustavo Rivera, chairman of the Chamber’s Health Committee to love everything that is holy and heaven and earth. Sayed Wednesday at the Rally in the Capitol.
