Financial Services has responsibility for budgetary and financial matters for ORS, including check processing and other financial transactions, federal reporting requirements, budget development, purchasing, agency services, facility management, and accounting. The largest section of the staff is responsible for researching, posting, distributing, and disbursing funds collected by ORS. About 85 percent of payments to the custodial parents are made through electronic payments such as direct deposit and electronic payment cards.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $2,235,900 from all sources for Financial Services. This is a 28.5 percent reduction from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $776,000 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 5.1 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
For the most recent completed fiscal year, the following information represents the purposes for which the money was used:
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.