Emyle Watkins
Disability Desk and News Reporter at WBFO-FM (Buffalo, NY)
Award-winning investigative journalist leading @WBFO’s Disabilities Beat. Author of @GIJN’s disability reporting guide. Disabled & Neurodivergent #CripTheNews🎙
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1 week ago |
wamc.org | Emyle Watkins
Last week, parties to a federal lawsuit against New York State's Department of Health filed and a judge approved a preliminary injunction which will create new protections for consumers and their personal assistants who are transitioning to a new company running the state's home care program. Emyle Watkins: Hi. I'm Emyle Watkins, and this is the Disabilities Beat.
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2 weeks ago |
wrvo.org | Emyle Watkins
Some disabled people who use New York State’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, will now be able to stick with the previous company who handled their workers' pay, for a brief time. A preliminary injunction entered in federal court on Thursday means consumers will have until May 15 to switch their care over to the state’s new single fiscal intermediary.
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2 weeks ago |
wamc.org | Emyle Watkins
On Wednesday night, parties to a federal lawsuit against New York State's Department of Health filed a proposed preliminary injunction that will not put the state's home care transition on hold, but will create new protections for consumers and their personal assistants. The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP, allows people with disabilities to hire, train and self-direct personal assistants who are paid using Medicaid dollars through a fiscal intermediary, or FI.
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2 weeks ago |
wamc.org | Emyle Watkins
Big news is expected today in a federal lawsuit challenging New York's transition to a single company running its Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP. Parties in the suit were given a deadline of midnight Tuesday night to agree to a preliminary injunction that may put on pause part of the transition, and it's expected to be finalized in court Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago |
wxxinews.org | Emyle Watkins |Jeongyoon Han
More than 600 companies that administer New York’s consumer-directed home care program can continue to operate until Tuesday at midnight under a temporary restraining order, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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This preliminary injunction for the CDPAP case was just approved by Judge Block in federal court: https://t.co/BqzKnZjX0X @BTPMNPR @WXXINews
BREAKING: A proposed preliminary injunction has been filed in PACER for the CDPAP transition case - here's the latest from me on what this could mean for consumers https://t.co/BqzKnZjX0X @BTPMNPR
It’s no secret that the #CDPAP transition has ignited heated discussion & questions from the disability community. Later this month, I'll ask those questions directly to the head of PPL, who has agreed to sit down with me for an exclusive live interview: https://t.co/WEzrTTmNF0
