Tag: Colorado State Auditor
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Colorado auditor finds serious issues with labor agency’s unemployment insurance accounting
Colorado’s state auditors found serious issues with the accounting practices of the unemployment insurance division of the Department of Labor and Employment, concluding the agency underestimated and overestimated figures to the tune of billions of dollars. The auditors labeled the problems with its most serious concern — a “material weakness,” an indication of a significant…
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Colorado budget gets clean opinion from Office of the State Auditor
Colorado’s state auditor issued a “clean” opinion on the financial statements prepared by the government and higher education institutions, concluding they met generally accepted accounting principles and the documents were presented fairly. The state’s financial statements reported total assets of $65.9 billion and expenditures of $56.3 billion. The state also spent just over $20 billion…
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Thousands of Colorado patients put in peril due to risky prescribing of psych medicine
Gene Estes implored his son, Shayn, to go to the emergency room that day, fearful he was having another reaction to his psychiatric medication. Shayn was forgetful, dropping things throughout the day, combative and disoriented during simple conversations. “I wanted him to see any doctor available,” Estes said. Gene was worried the dosage was off…