Assemblyman Keith P. Brown (R,C-Northport) attended a press conference in Albany on March 25, 2025, to support the Assembly and Senate Minority Conferences’ call for a delay in the implementation of changes to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) from April 1, 2025, to July 1, 2025.

CDPAP provides home care services to 280,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers. Residents currently utilizing CDPAP’s services are now being required to register with a single statewide fiscal intermediary, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), by April 1, 2025, despite the transition period beginning on Jan. 6, 2025—just a three-month window for registration. With such little time for a seamless transition, more than 100,000 consumers have yet to complete the registration process. These new requirements threaten to disrupt care for thousands of New Yorkers who rely on the program for essential home-based assistance.

To combat these issues, Minority Senators and Assemblymembers have introduced new legislation (S.6689), which is aimed at protecting New Yorkers’ access to home-based care by extending the timeline of the newly proposed changes to the program.

“Jeopardizing New Yorkers’ access to home-based care for the sake of rushing the implementation of changes to CDPAP is ridiculous,” said Brown. “Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rely on CDPAP’s services every day. I fully support my colleagues in the Senate and Assembly Minority Conferences in their mission to delay the implementation of changes to CDPAP until July 1, 2025, to give New Yorkers a reasonable amount of time to register with PPL.”