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General Information
Application Name Pennsylvania Automated Child Support Enforcement System 
Application Acronym PACSES 
State PENNSYLVANIA 
ACF Region Region III 
Federal Program Child Support Enforcement Program 
Profile Last Updated 8/3/2004 9:19:8 

State Information
Administration State Supervised, County Administered 
Additional State Programs   
Responsible Program Agency Department of Public Welfare Office of Income Maintenance Bureau of Child Support Enforcement 
Responsible System Agency Department of Public Welfare Office of Income Maintenance Bureau of Program Support 
Other Contributing Agencies   

Application Information
Maintained By Contractor Maintained 
Development Source Hybrid 
If Transfered, from which State   
Application Status Operational 
Planned/Actual Date Fully Operational February 1, 1999 
Functional Description The PACSES system contains the following features: Support of intake procedures that capture case and member data statewide. Automated receipt of IV-A (welfare) referrals from the Department of Public Welfare?s (DPW) Client Information System (CIS). Establishment of paternity by acknowledgement or genetic testing. Case assessment and automated next case processing. Generation of forms - manually by the user or system generated. Automated docketing of orders. Automatic initiation of locate requests. Delinquency tracking and automatic initiation of enforcement remedies. Distribution of receipts (payments) throughout a case and throughout multiple cases. Automated production of all management and federal reports. Provides audit trails of activities and financial data through diaries and financial transaction logs. Ability to track and enforce interstate cases through CSENet. Direct Client access to current and past financial case status via a web enabled platform. Data warehousing for automated retrieval of selected data. 
Interfaces There are three types of interface/interchanges that PACSES supports. They are locate, enforcement and financial intercept processing. Locate sources include State and Federal Data New Hire interface, Federal Case Registry interface, PA Department of Revenue interface, PA Department of Health interface, PA Department of Transportation interface, PA Department of Labor & Industry interface, CSENet interface, Social Security Administration interface, and PA IV-A System (CIS) interface. Enforcement sources include PA Department of Transportation interface for Drivers License Revocation, Epien, Equifax and Transunion interfaces for Credit Bureau listings, US Department of State interface for Passport Denial, and PA State Collection and Disbursement Unit interface for listings of Lien Holders. Financial Intercept sources include PA Department of Revenue interface for State Tax intercept, US Internal Revenue interface for Federal Tax intercept, PA Department of Labor & Industry interface for U/C intercept, State and Federal Data New Hire interface for Wage Attachment and Office of Child Support Enforcement interface for Financial Institution Data Match. 
No. of System Users There are 67 DRS Offices with approximately 3220 end-users of the system 
No. of Clients Served There are approximately 962K cases on the system with approximately 661K cases marked as open. There are approximately 2,565K me 
Certifications/Assessments PACSES has been PRWORA Certified -12/31/01 
Application Future Plans   
Other Relevant Information   

Contractor Usage
Planning Deloitte Consulting LLP. 
Implementation Deloitte Consulting LLP. 
Operations Unisys 
Monitoring Unisys 
Other Network Consulting: Lockheed Martin Services Inc. 

Hardware and Software Environment
Type of Application Multiple Database 
Type of Platform Single Platform 
Hardware Platform Unisys Mainframe WAN/LAN 
Operating System OS-2000; Windows NT ; Windows 2000XP 5.0 SP.3 
Languages ACOB ? ASCII COBOL 
DBMS UDSC; DMS-2200; RDMS-2200; UREP, IRU 

Programs and Services Information
Other Programs and Services Supported (Note: Check boxes below are images that are for information purposes and not real controls)
unchecked boxAdoption unchecked boxAdult Protective Services unchecked boxChild Care
unchecked boxChild Care Licensing unchecked boxChild Care Resource Referral unchecked boxChild Care Subsidy
unchecked boxChild Family Services unchecked boxChild Protective Services unchecked boxChild Support Enforcement
unchecked boxChild Welfare unchecked boxEmployment Services unchecked boxFamily Preservation Support
unchecked boxFood Stamp unchecked boxFoster Care unchecked boxIndependent Living
unchecked boxInterstate Compact unchecked boxJuvenile Justice unchecked boxLIHEAP
unchecked boxMedicaid unchecked boxProvider Services unchecked boxTANF
Additional Program or Services Information    

Contact Information
Program Contact
Name Jeff Rowe, PACSES Program Director 
Address 30 N Third St
Suite 600
Harrisburg    PA    17101  
Telephone 717-705-5100  
Fax 717-705-5197  
Email jeffrowe@pacses.com
Website http://www.humanservices.state.pa.us/childsupport 
IT Contact
Name Jeff Rowe, PACSES Program Director 
Address 30 N Third St
Suite 600
Harrisburg    PA    17101  
Telephone 717-705-5100  
Fax 717-705-5197  
Email jeffrowe@pacses.com
Website http://www.humanservices.state.pa.us/childsupport 

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