Since the COVID pandemic started last March, many of you have gone on the defense, reacting to an onslaught of confusing, and sometimes ambiguous regulations, trying to develop plans of compliance, and hoping that definitive guidance would come within a time period...

What is EANS? Emergency Assistance for Nonpublic Schools (EANS) is part of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 (CRRSA Act), the second federal economic stimulus package recently passed. The CRRSA Act created a fund that was...

According to the OMIG website, providers that receive Medicaid payments no longer have to perform an annual certification with the OMIG each December.

With the COVID pandemic, everyone has been forced to operate more remotely and this is even more prevalent in schools where remote learning is a standard, as parents are afraid to send their children to physical buildings or governmental regulations have prohibited in...

As a SED provider, I truly feel for you. You have had the unenviable task of having to pivot from in-person to remote learning, you have had to find ways to meaningfully connect with your students and their families, you have seen significant (20 to 25%) declines in...

In case you didn’t hear, the new CFR claiming manual and related software have been released. This is for CFRs for the year ended June 30, 2020. The NYS-issued CFR software is available for download on the CFRS Home Page. Due to the late release of the CFR software,...

In case you missed it, the Office of Child and Family Services (“OCFS”) has made available $48.6 million in the third installment of the federal CARES funding to support child care programs and the families who need child care services.

As many providers are already aware the reporting of SEIT on the consolidated fiscal report (CFR) for the year ending June 30, 2020 has been updated. Now providers are required to break out individual (9135), groups of 2 (9140) and groups of 3 or more (9145) into...

t’s funny what a difference a few weeks make. Prior to June 6th, when the forgiveness period was only eight weeks, we were strategizing with our clients to try to determine which staff they needed to bring back to work, considering which base period would have the least impact on their FTE calculation, and determining if we should use the cash basis or alternate method for seeking payroll forgiveness?

The Coronavirus has caused an extensive burden on schools in educating and providing related services to students remotely. Students who do not have access to technology, due to financial limitations, or the academic support needed from teachers or aides have been suffering. Teachers who have trained for in-person classroom settings are disoriented with the switch to remote, online learning.