Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan (R,C-Manchester) 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.

“Our state’s more than 280,000 elderly and disabled residents who rely on home care services should not be subjected to a potential lapse in the services CDPAP provides due to an unreasonable deadline,” said Gallahan. “S.6689 will allow residents to continue to have access to care by extending the deadline for new changes to CDPAP from April 1, 2025, to July 1, 2025. I am proud to support this endeavor and send a clear message to our constituents: the Senate and Assembly Minority Conferences have their backs.”