National Electronic Child Support Resource System

(http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/pol/DCL/2008/dcl-08-44.htm)
This Guidance is the 4th in a series of guidance documents related to enhacing the automation of CSE systems. This guidance document focuses on FIDM processing and includes case studies from New York, Florida and Oklahoma.

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The Office of Child Support Enforcement anticipates that the Computerized Tribal IV-D system and Office Automation Notice of Proposed Rule Making will be published soon. In anticipation of the published NPRM, consultations will be held. The dates are noted in the TDCL

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Invitation to State and Territorial IV-D Directors to send State systems staff to attend a National Child Support Systems Symposium at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington DC on March 18-20, 2008. OCSE will pay for one state staff member per State (travel and lodgings) to attend. Additional State staff possible depending on meeting room(s)

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On April 20, 2007 (DCL-07-10), OCSE announced an initiative designed to guide us forward in the application of technology to better support our services and users

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QUICK is an electronic application that allows caseworkers to view interstate case information in real time. This will allow caseworkers to view 34 different case activities underway or completed by another State.

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The purpose of the guide is to encourage states to improve case management productivity and efficiency through the use of Electronic Document Management (EDM) technologies. It provides states valuable information for analyzing and developing EDM and detailed case studies. The tool kit has been designed for state CSE technical, policy and program operations personnel and their contractors, and Federal OCSE technical assistance staff.

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Solicit input from States regarding recommendations for standardized data elements and transactions formats for exchange of data between State CSE and TANF agencies.

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This letter is to inform you of the annual user fees that each state will be assessed for use of the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) and the Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007.

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The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is hosting a National Child Support Interstate & Systems Symposium to be held at the Hilton Washington DC/Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD from June 6 through 9, 2006.

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Annually, each state is required to send a signed certification letter to the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) pertaining to the Federal Tax Refund Offset Program. gj082305

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The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) annually requires all states to submit certifications of compliance with safeguard and security requirements relating to locate information received from the FPLS. (gj081105)

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In recognition of the increasing opportunities for electronic exchanges of data, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) is facilitating the development of standards to guide data exchange.

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This is a DCL announcing a OCSE systems meeting in Chicago, Illinois on August 26-27, 2004 and inviting the IV-D Directors of each State and Territory to send staff to attend. OCSE will pay the travel/lodging for one state systems staff per state.

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This DCL conveys the “Guide for Automating Case Closure”, intended to help states increase the efficiency and accuracy of case closure in their Child Support Enforcement systems. The Guide contains case closure requirements, flowcharts, templates, case studies and discussions. Case closure automation can states reduce case closure errors, ensure actions are taken in a timely manner and uniformly across cases, reduce or eliminate backlogs so states can concentrate on cases requiring worker determination, and reduce data management demands by eliminating duplicate and outdated cases.

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The Office of Child Support Enforcement has been selected to take a lead role in support of the Department of Health and Human Services' activities to build electronic technology systems to communicate with states on a secure, electronic basis, including a pilot exploration of digital signatures. The pilot project will use the approach known as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI uses a combination of technology, policies, and procedures to provide confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for electronic communications. Through the use of digital signatures and encryption, PKI provides a high degree of security in information exchange.

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The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently agreed to renew processing 1099 requests from state Child Support Enforcement agencies.

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Informs State IV-D Directors that the OCSE has developed a Cost Allocation Methodologies Tool Kit to provide a simple, consistent, and objective cost allocation methodology to: help states determine equitable distributions of software development costs to Federal and State benefiting programs over the system development lifecycle; and help expedite the Federal approval process for state Cost Allocation Plans.

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Informs State IV-D Directors that two matrices have been developed to provide best practices and points-of contact to assist in the development and/or enhancement of their State Child Support Enforcement Program web-based customer service.

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The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) annually requires all states to submit certifications of compliance with safeguard and security requirements relating to locate information received from the FPLS (i.e., Federal Case Registry or the legacy FPLS). Managers of local offices with direct access to the FPLS are equally responsible for safeguarding and securing these data; therefore, annual certifications are required from IV-D Directors

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In August 2003, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) will implement FPLS Release 03-01. This release introduces enhancements to the Federal Case Registry (FCR), the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH), the Child Support Enforcement Network (CSENet) and the Federal Offset system.

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This DCL transmits a final copy of the guidance for auditing SDU's as part of the systems certification review. The Guidance is used to provide assurance that the internal controls implemented by the IV-D agency to safeguard assets, including the custody and execution to collections and corresponding payments, are functioning effectively as intended.

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The purpose of this letter is to transmit guidance, in a question and answer format, to states regarding submission of a final or

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Over the past year, the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) have worked together to explore automating the exchange of information between state and local Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agencies and courts. The projecte, funded by OCSE through a State Improvement Project (SIP) grant verified the feasibility of creating extensible Markup Language (XML) standards to exchange data.

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Fiscal Year 2003 Fees for the Federal Offset Program, the Federal Parent Locator Service, and the Child Support Enforcement Network

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Over the past couple of months the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) has been preparing states for new system changes included in FPLS Release 02-02 that will be implemented on November 15, 2002. As part of the release process, states were invited to participate in conference calls in July and August 2002 to discuss the release manifest and record specifications.