ROCHESTER, N.Y. – News10NBC is investigating a problem with money that should be going to people who care for people with disabilities. Sometimes it’s their own children.
New York State approved a raise of $2.50 an hour for home healthcare workers but the state, the healthcare workers and the agencies that pay them, say some insurance companies are keeping most of it.
As a result agencies have canceled regular overtime hours. And that basically wipes out the raise.
Mary Mann and her husband Mark are the home healthcare workers for her daughter Claire. They routinely work 17 hours of overtime a week at their home in Brighton to take care of her.
But in March they got a letter from the Center for Disability Rights, the agency that pays them, concerning their hours and raises.
It said their overtime is done because “the state gave [the raise] to insurance companies without mandating that they pass it along” to the agencies.
With the end of OT, the Mann’s stand to lose more than $400 a week. There goes their raise.
“This increase was supposed to be for the homecare providers,” Mary Mann said. “And where is it going? The insurance companies.”
“I’m kind of angry with the state,” Mark Mann said. “Why wouldn’t they do something about this? Why are they letting this happen? They’ve got to be aware at this point.”
They are now. Dozens of homecare workers and the agencies that pay them rallied inside the State Capitol today.
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