New York state taxpayers paid $1.9 million in interest for late payments incurred by the state, CBS Albany reports:
New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state paid more than $1.9 million in interest for late payments to vendors during the last fiscal year, up almost 40 percent from a year earlier. [...]
According to the comptroller's office, the leading agency in interest payments was the Department of Health at $1.3 million, followed by the State University of New York at nearly $110,000 and the Department of Transportation at almost $87,000.