Edison and Preferred will pay $7.5 million in back wages to the affected workers and $9.75 million to the Medicaid program to settle federal fraud claims. The case marks the largest settlement for violations of New York's Wage Parity Act to date, which sets minimum pay and benefit standards for home health aides.
Home health aides provide crucial care to our most vulnerable neighbors and loved ones, and they deserve to be paid for their hard work... Edison and Preferred cheated employees and defrauded New York taxpayers.
These aides deserve the hard-earned benefits guaranteed to them under the law... praising the agreement for holding the agencies accountable.
The settlement is part of ongoing efforts to protect home health workers, whose jobs are often grueling and underpaid.
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