Home Care Workers and Consumers Urge Hochul & New York Legislature to Implement PPL Oversight in Final Budget

ALBANY, NY (03/10/2026) (readMedia)-- Last night, the Senate and Assembly released their One House budget proposals and failed to include the Home Care Transparency Act. In response, New York Caring Majority released the following statement:

"We are deeply disturbed that neither the Senator nor Assembly included basic transparency requirements for New York's $11 billion contract with PPL. Handing private equity control over healthcare is questionable enough; doing so with zero oversight or accountability is reckless. At least 240,000 home care workers and consumers have fled CDPAP since PPL's takeover. And the private equity-backed company has been accused of 'egregious fiscal and operational failures' in six other states where they previously operated. Basic public reporting requirements are not just reasonable, they're necessary for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who rely on CDPAP. We strongly urge NYS leadership to include these transparency measures in the final state budget," said Ilana Berger, Director of the New York Caring Majority.

One year into the $11 billion CDPAP transition to private equity-backed Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), at least 150,000 workers and 90,000 consumers have fled the program. Governor Hochul claims the transition saved $1.2 billion, but has provided no evidence or detail. Recent emails obtained by the Empire Center reveal that Health Commissioner McDonald's testimony about early PPL contact contradicted state records-showing DOH officials met with PPL weeks before the Legislature even authorized the transition.

The Home Care Transparency Act (Comrie/González-Rojas) would require regular public reporting on how CDPAP dollars are spent, implementing common sense oversight to protect both essential services and public dollars. Reporting requirements include:

  • Utilization data
  • Financial data
  • Customer service requests, complaints, and accessibility including language and disability access.
  • Consumer directed personal assistant data, including payroll and wage information.
  • Information regarding interactions with subcontracted facilitators.
  • Any cases of fraud, as well as any audits or investigations being conducted into the single fiscal intermediary

About the NY Caring Majority

NY Caring Majority is an organization of people with disabilities, older adults, family caregivers, and home care workers.We are organizing to build a sustainable and just caring economy. We call for greater investments in home and community-based care, as a necessary means to meet our broader goal of dignity, self-determination, access and justice for all.

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