Corbett skirts Medicaid payments in budget

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: When Gov. Tom Corbett laid out his proposed budget last week, he said “sound budgeting and spending discipline” were key…

Making the payment a month later — at the start of a new fiscal year in July 2015, rather than June 2015 — pushes the cost from the proposed 2014-15 fiscal year budget into the following year’s budget.

Jay Pagni, a spokesman for Mr. Corbett, said the proposal for the one-time move was made “rather than going back to the taxpayer for a tax hike… (more)

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