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Payment for Service Credit – Article 14 Benefits

… by Article 14, you will usually be required to pay for service currently not credited to you. There are two kinds of past service costs — mandatory and optional. Mandatory costs are required for service credit you earned as a member but for which you made no (or …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/publications/1644/payment-service-credit

State Comptroller DiNapoli Statement on the Governor's 2025 State of the State Address

… DiNapoli released the following statement today regarding Gov. Kathy Hochul's State of the State Address: "Today, Gov. … Yorkers address affordability and improve quality of life in our state. “Many of New York's families are feeling …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/01/state-comptroller-dinapoli-statement-governors-2025-state-state-address

Town of Oxford – Financial Condition (2024M-135)

… the Town of Oxford (Town) Board (Board) receive complete and accurate financial reports and effectively manage and … fund, town-wide (highway fund TW) began the 2024 fiscal year with a combined $206,637 fund balance deficit. Also, the … respond to unanticipated emergencies. The report includes 13 recommendations that, if implemented, will help the Board …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/07/25/town-oxford-financial-condition-2024m-135

Ontario-Seneca-Yates-Cayuga-Wayne Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) – Multiyear Planning and Software Management Audit Follow Up (2016M-249-F)

audit follow up, boces, ontario, seneca, yates, cayuga, wayne, multiyear planning, software management,

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/2023/pdf/ontario-seneca-yates-cayuga-wayne-boces-audit-follow-up-249-f.pdf

State Comptroller Releases School District Audits

… of 475 IT assets tested (31 percent). It took between 11 and 55 days from the initial visits for officials to locate … After adding back unused appropriated fund balances each year, the district’s recalculated surplus fund balance … was used to process 510 financial transactions after her resignation. In addition, school officials did not adopt …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/06/state-comptroller-releases-school-district-audits

DiNapoli: Health Departments Need to Clean Up Act on Food Safety

… DiNapoli said. “According to federal authorities, one in six Americans contracts a foodborne illness every year … 96,761 establishments. These inspections resulted in more than 1.2 million violations of the sanitary code, … by the departments. Of those, 717 (73 percent) resulted in no enforcement action, and for 590 of the 717 (82 …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/04/dinapoli-health-departments-need-clean-act-food-safety

Opinion 89-4

… You also ask whether the town may sell bonds and notes, at public or private sale, to the bank of which the supervisor … article 18 to include the designation of a depository of public funds (General Municipal Law, §800[2]). Section 801 … respect to holding collateral must yield to the strong public policy evinced by article 18. Accordingly, it is our …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-4

DiNapoli: Inflation in NYC Metro Area Up 6.1% in March, Growing at Highest Rate in 30 Years

… to continue to drive prices higher in the short-term. My office will continue to analyze how inflation is affecting …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/04/dinapoli-inflation-nyc-metro-area-march-growing-highest-rate-30-years

Preventing Inappropriate and Excessive Costs in the New York State Health Insurance Program

The New York State Health Insurance Program administered by the State Department of Civil Service is one of the nations largest public sector health insurance programs

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2018/05/09/preventing-inappropriate-and-excessive-costs-new-york-state-health-insurance-program

Practices Used by the Transit Adjudication Bureau to Collect and Account for Fines and Fees

… for violations of NYC Transit (Transit) rules governing public use of the transit system. TAB offers a respondent the …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/08/11/practices-used-transit-adjudication-bureau-collect-and-account-fines-and-fees

DiNapoli: Temporary Federal Spending Drives Up NY’s National Ranking in States’ Balance of Payments

… response to the COVID-19 pandemic significantly improved New York’s per capita ranking in the federal balance of payments … Fiscal Year (FFY) 2021, according to a report released by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. For every dollar New …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/04/dinapoli-temporary-federal-spending-drives-nys-national-ranking-states-balance-payments

DiNapoli: Contribute to 529 College Savings Account by Dec. 31 for Tax Benefits

… For access to state and local government spending, public authority financial data and information on 140,000 …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/12/dinapoli-contribute-529-college-savings-account-dec-31-tax-benefits

State Agencies Bulletin No. 1973

… 5 members of ERS Plan Type 87 are affected. Background In accordance with Chapter 504 of the Laws of 2009, …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/1973-tier-5-pensionable-overtime-earnings-limit-calendar-year-2022-employees

Town of Berne – Audit Follow Up (2021M-77-F)

The purpose of our review was to assess the Town’s progress, as of October 2022, in implementing our recommendations in the audit report released in September 2021.

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/2023/pdf/berne-town-2021-77-f.pdf

Hancock Fire Department – Audit Follow Up (2018M-236-F)

The purpose of our review was to assess the Department’s progress, as of February 2022, in implementing our recommendations in the audit report released in May 2019.

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/2022/pdf/hancock-2018-236-f.pdf

Town of Carroll - Audit Follow Up (2013M-221F)

The purpose of our review was to assess the Town’s progress, as of October 2019, in implementing our recommendations in the audit report released in March 2014.

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/pdf/carroll-follow-up-2013-221f.pdf

City of Elmira – Audit Follow Up (2017M-90-F)

The purpose of our review was to assess the City’s progress, as of May 2020, in implementing our recommendations in the audit report released in August 2017.

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/2020/pdf/elmira-2017-90-f.pdf

Town of Webb – Audit Follow-Up (2018M-188-F)

… 2018 report - pdf ] Purpose of Audit The purpose of our review was to assess the Town of Webb’s (Town) progress, as of February 2022, in implementing our recommendations in the audit report released in November …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2022/05/20/town-webb-audit-follow-2018m-188-f