dcl-99-53

DCL-99-53 MAY 27, 1999

TO: ALL IV-D DIRECTORS

RE: Unemployment Insurance Data Summary

Dear Colleague:

As you know, States began submitting Unemployment Insurance (UI) information to the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) on January 31, 1998. In a continuous effort to maintain the quality of child support data and to provide you with feedback, we have prepared summary statistics about your State’s UI data. The attached charts provide valuable information regarding the volume of data submitted and the quality of the data received. Please review this information carefully.

Table 1 provides the following information about your State’s most recent UI submission as of March 31, 1999:

Number of records submitted by your State;
Number of records posted (passed SSA’s verification routines) to the NDNH;
Percent of records that were unverified (did not pass the SSA verification routines) as compared to the national average; and
Percent of records that were rejected (percent of records that were not posted to NDNH because of incomplete data or duplicate batch numbers) as compared to the national average.

Table 2 provides information about the number of errors relating to your State’s most recent UI submission. The table indicates the number of records for which:

Social Security Number (SSN) and name do not match;
SSN is invalid or out of range or has not been issued by SSA;
SSN is non-numeric;
SSN is missing or is not greater than zeroes;
Claimant name is missing;
Claimant address is missing;
Claimant first name is missing; and
Claimant last name is missing.

Chart 1 shows the unverified rate over time, i.e. the percentage of records per quarter that did not pass the SSA verification routines. This can help you determine improvement over time.

Table 3 provides cumulative information on all batches that were submitted and posted to the NDNH. The detailed information includes:

Header date;
Date processed;
Batch number;
Total number of records submitted;
Number and percent of records posted to the NDNH;
Number and percent of records rejected with unverified SSNs;
Number and percent of records rejected for other reasons; and
Total number and percent of records rejected.

If you have any questions about this information, please contact Laura Haggerty-Lacalle at (703) 821-3090, x228.

Sincerely,

David Gray Ross
Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement

Enclosure

cc: Regional Program Managers
State UI Contacts