Guardians often obtain full legal oversight of a person, including control of their healthcare, assets, and finances.
The comptroller s report details more than 3,000 guardian cases from 2007 through 2017. It alleges that, in a little over a dozen of those cases, there are more than $1.25 million in âunsupported expensesâ with no details given about the expenses.
âWe found where there were many cases where there was no activity in the case for years â sometimes as many as nine years,â Diamond said.
The audit also claims that courts were not being updated when guardians were not following state law.
Orange County Clerk of Courts Tiffany Moore Russell says out of 13 findings and recommendations from the audit, her office agrees with two, partially agrees with seven and doesnât agree with four.
That would include $73 million over the next two years to upgrade the DEO s IT system and move the unemployment benefit system to a cloud-based program, Eagle said.
Eagle is also pushing for money to hire 435 new full-time employees who would be used for the next year or two to process complicated claims.
In an appearance before the Florida Senate s Select Committee on Pandemic Preparedness on Monday, Eagle acknowledged that the third-party call center agents brought in to help last year can t handle complicated claims.
The audit will be used to urge state lawmakers to help fix the system. The annual Florida Legislative Session starts Tuesday, with no promises of any investments.
Trump Returns to Political Stage at CPAC in Orlando
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Trump to speak Sunday at CPAC in Orlando
Trump slated for 3:45 p.m.
Many supporters are excited for Trump s return to the political arena after taking a month away.
Ahead of his arrival in Orlando, it’s looking more and more like a rally outside of CPAC. Some people are unhappy to see the former president making a return to speak for the Republican Party, hoping he d step back after a troubled final year in office. Others are excited to see his take on moving the party forward.
PUBLISHED 8:11 PM ET Feb. 26, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:11 PM EST Feb. 26, 2021
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A former aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lindsey Boylan, accused the governor of
sexual harassment earlier this week, but since this news broke, a few top Democrats on both the state and federal level have been silent.
One of the state’s most prominent female Democrats, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on Thursday, a day after this news broke, denied that she had read Boylan’s personal accounting of the governor’s alleged sexual harassment. I have not read her allegations or her post, her Medium post, but as I said, everyone has a right to be able to come forward and speak their truth and be heard, Sen. Gillibrand said. And that is true for her and that is also true for Gov. Cuomo.