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State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits

… continues to provide taxpayers the assurance that their money is being spent appropriately and effectively." Village … or conduct assessments of internal controls as required. Find out how your government money is spent at Open Book New York . Track municipal …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/04/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits-1

Opinion 98-15

… views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer represent those … id .). Section 119-dd contains no referendum requirement. It is a fundamental rule of statutory construction that a … buildings and structures. Moreover, by its express terms, it is a grant of authority "[i]n addition to existing powers …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-15

Opinion 97-15

Whether a county may establish a lighting district whereby benefited properties would be assessed for the cost of operating and maintaining street lights

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-15

DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits

… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced … annually reviewed the procurement policy, as required by law. Audits found that the city awarded contracts to four … County) The town board adopted budgets that were not based on sound and realistic estimates of revenues and …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/01/dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits

State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits

… Transportation Authority Homeless Outreach Program at the Metro-North Railroad (2018-S-36) In June 2017, … backlog. Find out how your government money is spent at Open Book New York . Track municipal spending, the state's …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/03/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits

Medicaid Program – Improper Payments for Recipients No Longer Enrolled in Managed Long Term Care Partial Capitation Plans

… Purpose To determine whether the Medicaid program made inappropriate capitation payments to Managed Long Term Care Partial Capitation plans for … Also, the Department’s managed long‑term care contracts do not require Plans to void inappropriate capitation …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/03/30/medicaid-program-improper-payments-recipients-no-longer-enrolled-managed-long-term-care

State Agencies Bulletin No. 1014

… Purpose To inform agencies of new functionality in PayServ that allows for the selection of a 30% tax rate … M-1 or Q-1 visa Effective Date(s) Immediately Background In accordance with the 2010 IRS Instructions for Form 1042-S, … a specific Treaty ID value for each country code in PayServ. This value can be chosen in the Treaty ID field …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/1014-withholding-rate-30-nonresident-alien-scholarship-recipients

DiNapoli: Audit Finds Inadequate Oversight of Student Grade Changes

… unsupported grade changes to a lack of policy guidance. For example, at the end of each semester, the number of grade … systems. The districts typically lacked proper policies for adding system users, establishing users’ access rights, … new policies that outline procedures and requirements for making grade changes in both current and previous …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/09/dinapoli-audit-finds-inadequate-oversight-student-grade-changes

DiNapoli: Audit Reveals Cash, Drugs, Weapons Missing from Police Custody

… could not be located. Department officials indicated the money was transferred to other agencies or returned to its …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/02/dinapoli-audit-reveals-cash-drugs-weapons-missing-police-custody

Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits

… continues to provide taxpayers the assurance that their money is being spent appropriately and effectively. Village …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/09/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits

Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits

… fiscal climate, budget transparency and accountability for our local communities is a top priority,” said DiNapoli. … realistic budgets based on historical or known trends for the town’s three sewer districts. As a result, the sewer … deficit of $160,150 and its accumulated deficit for 2013 was approximately $249,000. Hughsonville Fire …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/08/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits-0

State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases State Audits

… Department of Health: Medicaid Overpayments for Certain Medicare Part C Claims (Follow-Up) (2016-F-18) An initial … audit report released in January 2015 identified 5,571 Medicare Part C claims that either had unreasonably high … recovering overpayments and instructing providers to bill Medicare Part C claims in accordance with the existing …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/12/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-state-audits-0

Opinion 90-58

… may no longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory … -- Insurance Transactions (village board members selling to village employees) GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §§800(2), 806: The sale of an individual insurance policy by a village trustee to a village employee in the employee's …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-58

Medicaid Audits Find More Than $500 Million in Waste

… and The issuance of multiple client identification numbers ($17 million). Significant recoveries that resulted …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/04/medicaid-audits-find-more-500-million-waste

Opinion 90-5

… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time … to increase the number of trustees and, if so, by what procedure and for what term the new trustees would be … provides for the town board to appoint the trustees, it does not prescribe the manner of increasing the number of …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-5

Opinion 90-46

… §39(2)(e); STATE FINANCE LAW, §8(15): A county is entitled to retain $5.00 of each court index fee of $100.00 collected by a county clerk pursuant to Civil Practice Law and Rules, §8018(a). The State must refund to a county the county's $5.00 portion of each index fee …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-46

Risk Management Planning Group

… and standard industry practices. NYSIF also should ensure it receives accurate reserves information from the TPA (RMPG) … the insurance claims. NYSIF provided no evidence that it established procedures to effectively guard against the …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2017/01/24/risk-management-planning-group

Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School Audits

… officials appropriated fund balance as a funding source for the past three years in amounts that were unnecessary and … action by preparing a projection of year-end fund balance for the food service fund while also improving the overall … less than planned and the district’s total fund balance for the general fund increased $4.8 million. During the same …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/04/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-audits-0