The Department of Human Services is focused on improving access to health care in Pennsylvania while reducing Medicaid spending. DHS has begun to reward health care providers for the quality of their care, focus on preventive screenings, and work to limit costly and sometimes unnecessary services, such as an overuse of emergency rooms.

This is a connection to the Erie County Revenue and Expenditures Data.
In Erie County, we are committed to being good stewards of our taxpayers’ money. This Erie County Budget page offers an open, transparent look at exactly how your tax dollars are being used.
We invite you to explore the Erie County budget, broken down by revenue and expenditures. Information on this site starts with 2017.

Please send any questions to financedata@eriecountypa.gov. Your question will then be routed to the person who can best answer it. All questions will answered within five business days.

If your question is outside the scope of the data, you may be asked to file a Right to Know Request. A Right to Know Request Form can be found on the Erie County Website, www.eriecountypa.gov under County Services, Records and Right to Know Request. Responses to Right to Know Requests are governed by statute and will be handled accordingly.

The intent of the data is to provide an overview of cumulative state and federal expenditures dedicated to COVID-19 preparedness and response. Where applicable, detail information is provided at the agency/fund/commitment-item level. Scope of data includes expenditures attributed to federal funding provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) (PL 116-136), the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act (PL 116-123), the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (PL 116-127), and the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (“Stafford Act”)(PL 100-707); state expenditures attributed to the Governor’s disaster proclamation; and all other state expenditures incurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to non-applicability and/or immateriality, state expenditures uniquely assigned as matching funds for federal awards are not included within the detail. In most circumstances, federal matching requirements were waived in response to COVID-19.

Expenditure data contained within the dataset is extracted from the Funds Management (FM) module of the Commonwealth’s accounting system (SAP). Expenditures, reported as cumulative through the end of the defined reporting period, are generally recognized and recorded when a liability to make a payment is incurred, regardless of when the cash disbursement is to be made. Unique account assignments have been established and utilized independently by each Commonwealth agency/program to distinguish expenditures attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please note that the data reported may not reconcile directly to spending reported to the federal government for the same period due to differences in how spending is grouped or classified, or due to specific data submission requirements.