The Hochul administration softened its deadline for a pro-union overhaul of the state’s $9 billion home care system -– after a rollout so chaotic one insider called it “a s–t show.”
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to release a plan with only days until an April 1 deadline for more than 280,000 home care recipients to transition to a handpicked firm for payment processing, The Post has learned.
The Department of Health said it would announce “a plan to protect consumers and workers who require some additional time to transition” although it said it was still holding to the deadline for the consumer directed personal assistance program, or CDPAP.
Hochul handpicked Public Partnerships LLC as a new middleman to consolidate payroll services from hundreds of firms, a move supported by an influential health care union that could gain thousands of new members through unionizing aides under the program…