Cuomo proposes flat pay for caretakers of disabled for 6th straight year
ALBANY- The Cuomo administration has proposed keeping pay flat for the sixth straight year for caretakers of the disabled and others at state-funded nonprofits.
Most Assembly members, in response, have signed a letter calling for the 2 percent cost-of-living increase in the final negotiated budget for the next fiscal year. They say that continuing the already low pay forces many staff to work unsafe amounts of overtime or take second jobs.
Advocates say that also erodes care for the vulnerable people in the nonprofits’ group homes and programs because of attrition and turnover.