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2024 Year in Review
A look back at some of the major accomplishments of the Office of the New York State Comptroller in 2024.
DiNapoli: More Older Adults Calling NYC Home Than Ever Before, Comptroller's Report Finds
New York City’s 65 and older population grew by nearly half a million seniors in the last two decades, an increase of 53%, according to a new report by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Much of the growth was led by Asian, Hispanic and Black seniors calling the city home, along with more seniors born outside the U.S. With a record high senior population, the Comptroller warns city funding must keep pace with demand to support critical services for older adults in the future.
DiNapoli and DA Carney: Owner of Medical Transport Company Pleads Guilty to Medicaid Fraud
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Schenectady County District Attorney Robert M. Carney, and Schenectady County Sheriff Dominic Dagostino announced the guilty plea of Muhammad Adnan Saeed, owner of Sublime Medical Transportation, for stealing over $700,000 from the state’s Medicaid program. Saeed inflated Medicaid bills by falsely claiming that group rides were separate, individual rides in order to unlawfully receive mileage payments for each individual in the group.
State Comptroller DiNapoli Statement on 2025 State of the City Address
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli released the following statement on New York City Mayor Eric Adams' 2025 State of the City address:
State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal & School Audits
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government and school audits were issued.
2024 Year In Review
DiNapoli: Rochester Woman Pleads Guilty to Stealing $121,000 in Pension Checks Sent to Late Grandmother
A Rochester woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $121,000 in state pension checks that were sent to her deceased grandmother, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley, and Monroe County Sheriff Todd K. Baxter announced today. The defendant, Elona Roberts, was arrested in June.
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$21 Million in Unused Gift Cards Were Turned Over As Unclaimed Funds in 2024
The Critical Role of Nonprofits in New York
Nonprofit organizations in 2022 provided 1.3 million jobs to New Yorkers, just over 1 in 6 private sector jobs in the State. However, nonprofits in New York have been shrinking since 2017, both in number of establishments and in number of jobs, while expanding in the rest of the nation. This report analyzes the most recent employment and wage data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for charitable organizations identified as 501(c)(3)s for the period 2017 through 2022, the latest data available.