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State's fiscal watchdog calls for all stores to be open 12 hours, 7 days a week HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner commended the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board's innovative attempt to expand customer convenience and boost profits by placing wine kiosks in grocery stores, but a special performance audit, released today by his department, found that the program fell short of established goals in large part because of mechanical malfunctions that caused the PLCB to shut down all 29 operating kiosks during the busy Christmas season.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Pennsylvanians receiving public assistance made $5.2 million in out- of-state purchases or cash withdrawals in May 2010 using Electronic Benefits Transfer cards, but the Department of the Auditor General could not analyze the legality of any of the 94,947 transactions because the Department of Public Welfare, which issues the debit cards, refused repeated requests to provide records and supporting documentation, Auditor General Jack Wagner said today. Wagner, the state's independent fiscal watchdog, said that his auditors requested EBT information from the Department of Public Welfare on Aug. 9, 2010, Sept. 14, 2010, Nov. 15, 2010, and April 21, 2011. DPW repeatedly denied the requests.
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Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India and chair of the Knowledge Sharing Committee, presented his report to the Governing Board and the XX INCOSAI. According to the INCOSAI strategic plan, the purpose of goal 3 is to encourage SAI cooperation, collaboration, and continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, including providing benchmarks, conducting best practice studies, and performing research on issues of mutual interest and concern. In addition to Rai's report, the individual working groups and task forces reported on their goals and achievements. This article summarizes the activities and accomplishments of goal 3 working groups and task forces.
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Among four recommendations contained in audit of state's largest system HARRISBURG, Pa., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With violence remaining a chronic problem in Philadelphia schools, Auditor General Jack Wagner today urged the state Department of Education to fund the Safe Schools Advocate's office, which was created to help the School District of Philadelphia address parents' concerns over school safety.
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Calls on General Assembly to lift onerous Act 44 funding obligations HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner warned today that Pennsylvania taxpayers could be on the hook for billions of dollars of additional debt if the General Assembly does not soon amend or appeal Act 44 of 2007, which requires the Turnpike Commission to provide $450 million a year in infrastructure funding to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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Diversions hurt adultBasic insurance and tobacco prevention programs HARRISBURG, Pa., March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner today recommended that Gov. Corbett and the General Assembly use incoming tobacco settlement dollars as intended to provide adultBasic health insurance to Pennsylvanians who don't qualify for Medicaid. He said that $1.34 billion in tobacco settlement funds have already been quietly diverted from the uses originally intended by the Tobacco Settlement Act of 2001.
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Calls for moratorium until General Assembly, Rendell Administration close loopholes HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner today called for a statewide moratorium on the creation of new charter and cyber charter schools until the General Assembly and the Rendell Administration fix a flawed funding system that bears no connection to the actual cost of educating children and is costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year in additional questionable spending.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner today recommended that the Marcus Hook Trainer Volunteer Firefighters' Relief Association in Delaware County strengthen controls over its finances after a former treasurer stole over $11,000 from the VFRA and its predecessor. Wagner made the recommendation after his special investigation found that the VFRAs' former treasurer misappropriated $11,639 in funds from two VFRAs by writing checks to himself. The treasurer, Jay Smith, cashed 19 checks written to himself from the Marcus Hook VFRA from 2004 to 2008, totaling $9,276; and wrote four checks in 2008 from the Marcus Hook Trainer VFRA totaling $2,364.
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Says corrective action must be taken immediately, or work should be privatized HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner said today that his auditors found so many errors in the State Tax Equalization Board's revised property market values for 2008 that it has raised questions about the accuracy of the 2009 report and the coming 2010 property report, which is scheduled for release in July.
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Increased tax collections result in distribution of an additional $132 million of state aid HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Auditor General Jack Wagner said today that 87 percent of Pennsylvania's 1,488 municipalities receiving state aid for their pension plans covering fire, police and non-uniformed personnel will receive a one- time funding increase this year because of the commonwealth's stepped-up effort to collect a 2-percent tax on out-of-state companies that sold casualty insurance policies to Pennsylvania residents.
