This memorandum provides information on five types of programs that provide property tax and/or rental cost relief to seniors. These include: property tax exemptions; property tax credits, and income tax credits that reimburse housing costs; "circuit breaker" programs that provide targeted housing cost relief to low-income seniors; property tax freezes; and property tax deferrals.

This guidance document replaces the Department's previously-issued guidance regarding the impact of recent federal legislation on Colorado income tax. The prior guidance explained that, as a consequence of Rule 39-22-103(5.3), certain retroactive provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), did not affect a taxpayer's Colorado income tax liability. A recent court...

The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's report for HB22-1268 on the Medicaid reimbursement rates paid to mental health providers. A progress report is required annually until 2025.

Annual Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act is designed to ensure Medicaid managed care organizations and Medicaid alternative benefit plans providing mental health or substance use disorder benefits impose offer benefits that are no more stringent than those imposed upon medical and surgical benefits (M/S) in the same classifications.