<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CDPAP Caregivers Go Unpaid By PPL </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Home Care Workers and Advocates Sound Alarm on PPL\u2019s Botched Transition </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cpcKg37bvkens4Wi96l1TOeEgs-5ShLK/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Watch the Full Press Call Here</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">New York, NY \u2013</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> This morning, The Alliance to Protect Home Care hosted a press call with CDPAP caregivers who sounded the alarm on Governor Hochul\u2019s controversial home care overhaul and PPL\u2019s chaotic transition. What should have been the first pay week for hundreds of thousands of CDPAP caregivers, has left many unpaid, confused, and frustrated. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For months, the Department of Health has promised New Yorkers: </span><a href="https://youtu.be/UOKgww5Kh_w?t=43" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cIf you\u2019re a CDPAP home care user, you can keep your trusted caregiver. If you\u2019re a caregiver, it will be easier for you to get paid.\u201d</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Today\u2019s testimonies prove those promises fell short:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Emx-zoJ0S6Gz4kfdr4ADLPHghIAwmLLw/view?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Tara Murphy, Albany\u2013area caregiver</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cI got a pay stub in the mail for $0 for an EVV training\u2026PPL is supposed to save money. And it's severe mismanagement and a gross waste of funds to print pay stubs for $0 and send checks for $0 to how many people? It's absolutely disgusting\u2026.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">I wasn't paid by PPL this week. I don't know if I'm going to be paid by the PPL\u2026And if I don't make that payment next week, I lose my car.\u201d</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mknRlY5IJsNsYMgYe1jX733GAnsMT6zV/view?usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Dawn Meany, Long Island-area caregiver</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cI made 19 phone calls with only zero being returned. I had six emails to PPL never returned. I have not received a paycheck\u2026.The anxiety it has caused him because he lost three staff members is insane. I have become his 24-7 care person because I couldn't get anybody else approved. I couldn\u2019t even get him approved.\u201d</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/118iJJZwXFr5LP5UMD37mGkdcSFFUF_fd/view?usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Kim Conway, Long Island-area CDPAP user</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cNow, this week is a whole different story. None of my overnight aides are being paid for their shifts. They work 12 or 16 hour shifts. Every one of them has been denied\u2026At this point, unfortunately, I chose for my own and my aides' sanity and financially, we chose to have to move over to PCA services. And as of Monday, I'm no longer in the CDPAP program.\u201d</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Es_Zt5hnfhyNTogqisd5pu03xDhuv3iP/view?usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Heather Burroughs, Rochester-area CDPAP user </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cEverybody's paperwork has been in for almost two months at this point. But guess what? Out of nine caregivers, one got paid. One, this pay period\u2026.This is quite literally the only program that my daughter qualifies for that can save her life. The only other option is to move her into a nursing home or a group home.\u201d</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wY9WyVt6_oi13KI5txMNp0GwmUJ6G5rb/view?usp=drive_link" style="text-decoration-line:none" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Rebekah MacNeill, Rochester-area caregiver </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">\u201cI love this job so much, truly. I feel like this was my passion. I feel like this is what God put me on the earth to do is to help people. And it's devastating that I might have to walk away from this job just because this is happening\u2026.It's sad that this is happening in 2025. We're fighting for civil rights here\u2026.it makes me tear up because these are people and we're not treating them like they're people.\u201d</span></p><div></div><div><br><br></div></div>
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