<div dir="auto"><br>Attorneys with Patterson Belknap and NY Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) have filed an urgent appeal with the Court. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The letter notes that "DOH is defying the Court\u2019s TRO to serve their overarching goal of punishing the existing FIs at the expense of CDPAP consumers\u2014our clients in this litigation who need the critical support of Personal Assistants to stay in their homes and avoid hospitalizations, nursing homes or other congregate care restricted living arrangements."<br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Specifically, the Plaintiffs are asking the Court:</div><div dir="auto">"We ask the Court to explicitly order DOH to reinstate the contracts with the existing FIs in a manner that covers consumers who have not yet begun enrollment with PPL, or who have started but they or their Personal Assistants have not yet completed it, in compliance with applicable law, so that the services they are legally entitled to receive are not abruptly cut off because DOH is refusing to provide a mechanism for the prompt payment of wages to their Personal Assistants." </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The full letter is attached.<br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div>
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