Colorado Revised Statutes Title 26. Human Services Code § 26-1-127.5. Prevention of erroneous payments to prisoners--incentives

(a) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated recipient that consists of state or county moneys;

(b) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated recipient that consists of federal moneys granted to the state or counties, unless federal law prohibits the use of such grant moneys for the purpose specified in this subsection (1);

(c) Any portion of one month's benefit that would have been payable to the incarcerated recipient that consists of federal moneys made available by waiver for the purpose specified in this subsection (1).

(3)(a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (3), the state department or county departments shall not pay a reward to a sheriff for providing identifying information pursuant to subsection (1) of this section in connection with a participant in the Colorado works program, created pursuant to part 7 of article 2 of this title, unless the federal government permits any amount paid as a reward to qualify as an expenditure for the purposes of meeting the state maintenance of historic effort required pursuant to section 26-2-713.

(b) The state department or county departments shall not pay a reward as authorized under this section if the state or county costs of implementing the provisions of this section exceed the overall saving of state or county moneys that the state department or county departments estimate shall be realized by implementing this section.