Connecticut state auditors listed 59 recommendations in their audit of Veyo, a transportation service contracted by the Department of Social Services to provide Medicaid recipients with rides to and from non-emergency medical appointments. The auditors found that on one occasion a couple was left waiting for five hours in a ...
Former president of AFSCME Local 749, Charles Della Rocco, spent nearly an entire year on union business leave, according to time sheets obtained under a Freedom of Information request. Della Rocco served as a police officer for the Connecticut Supreme Court and was paid roughly $70,000 in salary and approximately ...
The Insurance and Real Estate Committee voted to draft a bill to cap the out-of-pocket costs for insulin, but lawmakers had to contend with the proposed language of the bill which placed a fee on insulin distributors and manufacturers. Senator Matthew Lesser, D-Middletown, who serves as co-chairman of the Insurance ...
North Carolina recently overhauled its retirement medical benefits for state employees – also known as OPEB – to relieve a growing $34.4 billion debt, according to a new report released by the Manhattan Institute, but such reforms in Connecticut are unlikely under the state’s 30-year contract with state employee unions. ...
Connecticut is one of only four states that give state employees a paid day off on February 12th for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but while the state government may be on holiday, the cost to taxpayers is not. Lincoln’s birthday will cost roughly $10.6 million this year, based on Connecticut payroll ...
Mary Beth Nardella, owner of Precious Moments Early Learning Center in Watertown, Connecticut, says the state’s new $15 minimum wage will drive up child care prices and reduce employee work hours in a video released by the Employment Policies Institute. “I fear Governor Lamont’s decision to raise the minimum wage ...