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Becoming a Participating Employer – What Every Employer Should Know
… part of NYSLRS allows municipal employers to offer workers retirement benefits related to years of service and final average earnings, as well as death and disability retirement benefits. The process of becoming a participating … After an employer has participated in NYSLRS for one full State fiscal year (April 1 – March 31), an initial valuation …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/partnership/becoming-participating-employerOversight of Information Technology Consultants and Contract Staffing
… Objective To determine if the Office of Information Technology Services (ITS) is adequately … discretionary contracts, and stand-alone purchase orders. In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, ITS had 747 contract … Level Credits, which eliminated the opportunity to reduce payments to IBM if certain performance metrics were not met. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2019/09/16/oversight-information-technology-consultants-and-contract-staffingDiNapoli: New York City's Government Workforce Expected to Increase for First Time Since Pandemic
… New York City’s full-time government workforce is expected to … COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The city is projected … full-time employees, up from 281,917 workers in June 2023. "The COVID-19 pandemic upended New York city’s public …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/05/dinapoli-new-york-citys-government-workforce-expected-increase-first-time-pandemicAbout the Retirement System – What Every Employer Should Know
… The New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) … of the largest public retirement systems in the world. The New York State Comptroller is the administrative head of NYSLRS. The New York State Retirement and Social Security law (RSSL) …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/employers/partnership/about-retirement-systemDiNapoli: NYC IDA Needs To Improve Its Administration of Business Tax Breaks and Monitoring of Job Creation
… was a continuation of previous benefit awards. NYCIDA is supposed to conduct a feasibility analysis for businesses’ … did not meet FTE expectations. Four had fewer FTEs than when they applied. Two of the projects, accounting for 472 of … the program including improved tracking and retention of application documents, ensuring IDA staff have expertise in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/06/dinapoli-nyc-ida-needs-improve-its-administration-business-tax-breaks-and-monitoring-job-creationResponse to Human Trafficking (2023-S-31)
To determine whether the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) is overseeing contracted Providers (Providers) and Local Districts of Social Services (Local Districts) to ensure adequate services are being provided to victims of human trafficking (survivors).
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2025-23s31.pdfDiNapoli: MTA Needs to Refocus Attention on Overdue Upgrades and Preparations for Extreme Weather
… The MTA should publish a new assessment of its long-term capital needs that pays particular attention to the growing threat climate change poses to transit, and … to Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s latest report . “The MTA is getting a large infusion of federal infrastructure …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/12/dinapoli-mta-needs-refocus-attention-overdue-upgrades-and-preparations-extreme-weatherOpinion 89-51
… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that … of a fire protection district, must specify a definite sum to be paid each year for all of the services to be rendered under the contract. There is no authority for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-51Phelps-Clifton Springs Central School District – Network Access (2021M-35)
… Key Findings District officials did not ensure that the District’s network access controls were secure. Officials … Regularly review network user accounts and permissions to determine whether they were appropriate or needed to be disabled. As a result, we identified 139 unneeded user accounts, 36 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2021/06/25/phelps-clifton-springs-central-school-district-network-access-2021m-35DiNapoli: Homeless Families, Adults Living in Squalid Shelters Due to Oversight Failure
… facility where two of three elevators were out of service; Worn and soiled mattresses; Air vents taped over to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/02/dinapoli-homeless-families-adults-living-squalid-shelters-due-oversight-failureOpinion 91-11
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … currently serves for a term of three years. You further state that the mayor nominates and appoints the city engineer … terms of office of the officers of the local government (NY Const, art IX, §2; Municipal Home Rule Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-11Efforts to Collect Delinquent Taxes (2019-S-61)
To determine if the Department of Taxation and Finance is making adequate efforts, in accordance with Department policy, to collect unpaid amounts—including taxes, interest, penalties, and fees—from delinquent individual and business taxpayers.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2021-19s61.pdfXII.9.D Refunds Owed to the State – XII. Expenditures
… This section provides Business Units with guidance on how to process monies owed to the State using the Statewide Financial System (SFS) for a … the voucher to credit the appropriation. Business Units do not need to process their own voucher to credit their …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xii/xii9d-refunds-owed-stateDiNapoli: New York Must Do More To Reduce Maternal Deaths
… The New York State Department of Health (DOH) needs to do more to ensure maternal deaths and morbidity rates … and nursing schools. Implementing a maternity medical home model of care and convening a multi-stakeholder group to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/08/dinapoli-new-york-must-do-more-reduce-maternal-deathsOvertime Limits for Tier 5
… of your final average earnings (FAE) , which is used to determine your NYSLRS pension. If you earn more than the … limit increases each calendar year by 3 percent. Refer to the table below for your annual limit. Calendar Year … information about your retirement benefits and how your pension will be calculated. Rev. 2/25 … For Tier 5 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/members/overtime-limits-tier-5Compliance With Requirements to Maintain Systems at Vendor-Supported Levels
… Objective To determine whether the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority … information technology (IT) department that operates out of its main office. RGRTA owns IT resources including … systems are maintained at vendor-supported levels (i.e., systems continue to be updated and patched by the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2019/07/29/compliance-requirements-maintain-systems-vendor-supported-levelsDetermining the Ex-spouse's Share – Divorce and Your Benefits
… York State law, pension benefits earned during a marriage are marital assets subject to equitable distribution in the … NYSLRS does not require use of this formula. There are other ways to distribute pension benefits. Other … actual retirement benefit. Rev. 2/23 … NYSLRS pensions are considered marital property and may be divided when a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/members/divorce/determining-ex-spouses-shareRochester Attorney Admits to Unlawfully Receiving Retirement Benefits
… M. Cecero, age 64, of Pittsford, New York, admitted today to unlawfully "double-dipping" and receiving state retirement benefits to which she was not entitled. She agreed to pay back those … in the New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS). In 1996, she left the NYAG to become the Legal and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/04/rochester-attorney-admits-unlawfully-receiving-retirement-benefitsOpinion 90-44
… tentative budget must include "[a] schedule of wages and salaries to be paid", and must show "for each office or … by resolution of the board of trustees, "the wages and salaries shown on the schedule thereof shall be fixed at the … Law uses both the phrases "compensation" and "wages and salaries", but does not define these terms (see, e.g., …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-44Annual Performance Report on New York State's Industrial Development Agencies - Fiscal Year Ending 2011
IDAs can assist ailing municipalities by encouraging the creation of new businesses or the retention of existing businesses. However, it is vitally important th
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/publications/pdf/idaperformance2013.pdf