[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 7, 1997)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 52306-52310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26538]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Office of Child Support Enforcement
45 CFR Part 303
RIN 0970-AB67
Child Support Enforcement Program Quarterly Wage and Unemployment
Compensations Claims Reporting to the National Directory of New Hires
AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: This proposed rule would implement section 453A(g)(2)(B) of
the Social Security Act (the Act), as added by section 313(b) of the
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
(PRWORA) and amended by section 5533 of Public Law 105-33, section
303(h) of the Act, in part, as amended by section 316(g) of PRWORA, and
section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by
section 316(g) of PRWORA. These provisions require certain State
entities to furnish quarterly wage and unemployment compensation data
to the National Directory of New Hires or to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services.
DATES: Consideration will be given to comments received by December 8,
1997.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Director, Office of Child Support
Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, 370 L'Enfant
Promenade, S.W., 4th floor, Washington, D.C. 20447. Attention:
Director, Policy and Planning Division, Mail Stop: OCSE/DPP. Comments
will be available for public inspection Monday through Friday, 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the 4th floor of the Department's offices at the
above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anne Benson, Policy Branch, OCSE (202)
401-1467, e-mail: abenson@acf.dhhs.gov. Deaf and hearing-impaired
individuals may call the federal Dual Party Relay Service at 1-800-877-
8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Eastern time.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Statutory Authority
This proposed regulation is published under the authority of
section 453A(g)(2)(B) of the Social Security Act (the Act), 42 U.S.C.
653A(g)(2)(B), as added by section 313(b) of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
(PRWORA), Public Law 104-193 and amended by section 5533 of Public Law
105-33, section 303(h) of the Act, in part, 42 U.S.C. 503(h), as
amended by section 316(g) of PRWORA, and section 3304(a)(16) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. 3304(a)(16), as amended by
section 316(g) of PRWORA.
This regulation is also proposed under the authority granted to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) by section 1102 of
the Act, 42 U.S.C. 1302. Section 1102 of the Act authorizes the
Secretary to publish regulations that may be necessary for the
efficient administration of the functions for which she is responsible
under the Act.
Section 453A(g)(2)(B) of the Act requires the State Directory of
New Hires to furnish, on a quarterly basis, data concerning the wages
and unemployment compensation paid to individuals to the National
Directory of New Hires. Pursuant to section 453A(g)(2)(B) of the Act,
the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services is
required to publish regulations to identify the dates, format, and data
elements necessary for the State Directory of New Hires to furnish the
quarterly wage and unemployment compensation data to the National
Directory of New Hires.
Section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 contains
requirements that must be included in State Unemployment Compensation
laws for employers in the State to receive Federal Unemployment Tax
credits. Section 316(g) of Public Law 104-193 amended section
3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that the
wage and unemployment compensation information contained in the records
of the State agency administering that program shall be furnished to
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in accordance with
regulations promulgated by the Secretary, as may be necessary for the
purposes of the National Directory of New Hires under section 453(i)(1)
of the Act. The Secretary intends to maintain the quarterly wage and
unemployment compensation data reported pursuant to section 3304(a)(16)
in the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH), which is being
established pursuant to section 453 of the Act.
Section 303(h)(1)(A) of the Act, as amended by section 316(g) of
Public Law 104-193, requires the State agency charged with the
administration of the unemployment compensation program, on a
reimbursable basis, to disclose quarterly, to the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, wage and claim information, as required pursuant to
section 453(i)(1) of the Act, that is contained in the records of such
agency. As is the case with information reported pursuant to section
3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Secretary intends
to maintain any quarterly wage and unemployment compensation data
reported pursuant to section 303(h) of the Act in the NDNH. Section
303(h)(3)(A) of the Act defines ``wage information'' as ``information
regarding wages paid to an individual, the social security account
number of such individual, and the name, address, State, and the
Federal employer identification number of the employer paying such
wages to such individual.'' Section 303(h)(3)(B) defines ``claim
information'' as ``information regarding whether an individual is
receiving, has received, or has made application for, unemployment
compensation, the amount of any such compensation being received (or to
be received by such individual), and the individual's current (or most
recent) home address.'' Title III of the Act, Grants to States for
Unemployment Compensation Administration, is directly administered by
the Department of Labor. We are referencing section 303(h)(1)(A) of the
Act because this provision references information required pursuant to
section 453(i)(1) of the Act. Section 453(i)(1) is administered by the
Department of Health and Human Services, and the information that is
required pursuant to that section (which in turn references information
supplied pursuant to section 453A(g)(2)) is being established in this
proposed rule. The Secretary also adopted the definitions included in
section 303(h) in the proposed rule in order to enable the
implementation of the provisions in an integrated and complementary
manner.
Background
The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) is a computerized network
established pursuant to section 453 of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 653, through
which States may request information from Federal and State agencies to
find noncustodial parents and/or their employers for purposes of
establishing paternity and securing support. The Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 requires
the Secretary to develop an expanded FPLS to improve States' ability to
locate child support obligors and to establish and enforce child
support orders, as well as for other specified purposes in Title IV-D
of the Act. The Office of Child Support
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Enforcement (OCSE), within the Administration for Children and Families
(ACF), is charged with the task of developing, implementing, and
maintaining the expanded FPLS. The Secretary will house the expanded
FPLS in the Social Security Administration's National Computer Center,
because locating the expanded FPLS there will provide the most
efficient and cost-effective mechanism for developing the expanded
FPLS, as well as ensuring state-of-the-art standards for system
security and confidentiality of the data.
The expanded FPLS will include the National Directory of New Hires
(operational no later than October 1, 1997) and a Federal Case Registry
(operational no later than October 1, 1998), and will maintain the
capability to seek information from existing FPLS data sources,
including, but not limited to, the Internal Revenue Service, Social
Security Administration, Department of Defense, and Department of
Veterans Affairs. The expanded FPLS will perform regular cross matches
between the National Directory of New Hires and the Federal Case
Registry. With these new FPLS resources, the interstate matching of
child support obligors and employment, earnings, and benefits data will
flow more efficiently and quickly between States.
The NDNH will contain three types of information. First, the NDNH
will maintain employment data on newly-hired employees (new hire
reporting) submitted by State Directories of New Hires pursuant to
section 453A(g)(2)(A) of the Act, and by federal agencies pursuant to
section 453A(b)(1)(C) of the Act. Second, the NDNH will maintain
quarterly wage information on individual employees received pursuant to
sections 453A(g)(2)(B) and 303(h) of the Act, and section 3304(a)(16)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as well as quarterly wage
information on federal employees received pursuant to 453(n) of the
Act. Third, the NDNH will maintain unemployment compensation claims
data received pursuant to sections 453A(g)(2)(B) and 303(h) of the Act,
and section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. States
will be required to transmit new hire, quarterly wage and unemployment
compensation claims data electronically to the NDNH. This proposed rule
addresses specifically quarterly wage and unemployment compensation
claims reporting to the National Directory of New Hires. Policy
guidance and program instructions on new hire reporting will be
forthcoming (see also OCSE Action Transmittal 97-04, March 12, 1997).
The purpose of the NDNH is to develop a repository of information
on newly-hired employees, and on the earnings and unemployment
compensation claims data of employees. The purpose of including
quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims data in the NDNH is
to provide States with the ability to quickly locate information on the
address of, employment of, and unemployment compensation being paid to,
parents with child support obligations who are residing or working in
other States. States will be seeking to locate these parents and their
employers to either establish or enforce a child support order.
Quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims data will provide
information on continuously employed and unemployed individuals who
would not be located solely by new hire reporting.
Most States have been matching their quarterly wage and
unemployment compensation claims data against their respective State
child support caseloads since the 1980's. In addition, since 1990 the
Federal Parent Locator Service has conducted cross-matches between
State child support locate requests and State Employment Security
Agencies, although such matches are currently limited to 250,000 cases
per State per bi-weekly cross-match. The information generated from
cross-matches between quarterly wage, claims and child support data,
both at the State level and in the more limited FPLS context, has
proven extremely beneficial for the location of child support obligors
and their wages. The inclusion of quarterly wage and unemployment
compensations claims data in the NDNH will allow for a substantially
higher volume of interstate cross-matching than is currently possible.
The Federal Case Registry will be a national registry of
individuals involved in child support cases, constructed from abstracts
of child support case and order information that State Case Registries
will transmit to the Federal Case Registry. The expanded FPLS, through
a matching process between NDNH and the Federal Case Registry, will be
able to automatically provide States with information on address,
employment, and unemployment compensation claims data on parents owing
child support. The expanded FPLS will also alert States to other States
that have registered the same individual.
In an effort to be responsive to the President's Memorandum of
March 4, 1995 to heads of Departments and Agencies which announced a
government-wide Regulatory Reinvention Initiative to reduce or
eliminate burdens on States, other governmental agencies or the private
sector, OCSE formed an FPLS workgroup which held three meetings between
September, 1996 and March, 1997. The purpose of the FPLS workgroup is
to provide consultation regarding the design, development, and
regulatory requirements for the expanded FPLS. This group is comprised
of representatives from State Child Support Agencies, State Employment
Security Agencies, the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, the
U.S. Department of Labor, the Social Security Administration, the
Interstate Conference of State Employment Security Agencies, employer
groups, payroll associations, and other interested individuals. The
workgroup members provided information regarding quarterly wage and
unemployment compensation claims reporting which was considered in
developing these proposed regulations.
Description of Regulatory Provisions
We are proposing to implement the three new statutory reporting
requirements by adding a new section, 45 CFR 303.108, ``Quarterly Wage
and Unemployment Compensations Claims Reporting to the National
Directory of New Hires,'' to existing rules governing the child support
enforcement program under Title IV-D of the Act. Although there are
three separate reporting provisions, the information required to be
reported is substantially the same for all three. Therefore, OCSE
proposes to address the Secretary's responsibilities under all three
provisions by a single regulation which will permit the data required
to be furnished under the three provisions to be supplied in a single,
quarterly submission. Further, OCSE will consider the reporting
requirements to have been satisfied if any one of the required
reporting entities submits the information in accordance with the
provisions of the regulation. OCSE intends to leave the decision as to
which entity will report up to the individual States. Accordingly, the
regulation refers to the ``State'' as the entity that must transmit
data to the NDNH. However, if data is not reported as required under
the proposed regulation, OCSE intends to hold the State Title IV-D
agency accountable for the failure of the State Directory of New Hires
to report as required under section 453A(g)(2)(B). Section 454(28) of
the Act, as added by section 313(a) of PRWORA, added a new State plan
requirement for Title IV-D agencies to operate a State Directory of New
Hires in accordance with section 453A of the
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Act. The failure to report as required pursuant to section 303(h) of
the Act or section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 may
also result in actions being taken by the Secretary of Labor.
The proposed 45 CFR 303.108(a) contains definitions designed to
clarify quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims reporting.
Paragraph (a)(1) defines ``Reporting period'' as the time elapsed
during a calendar quarter, e.g. January-March, April-June, July-
September, October-December. ``Wage information'' is defined in
paragraph (a)(2) as: (1) the name of the employee; (2) the employee's
social security number; (3) aggregate wages of the employee during the
reporting period; and (4) the name and address (and optionally, any
second address for wage withholding purposes) and Federal employer
identification number of the employer reporting wages. In the event
that an individual is working more than one job, the State must
transmit separate quarterly records containing the ``wage information''
for each job an individual has held. The information being included as
wage information is the minimal amount of data needed to meet the
purposes of the NDNH. OCSE is requesting data on the names of employees
in order to meet the requirements of section 453(j)(1) of the Act, 42
U.S.C. 653(j)(1). Section 453(j)(1) requires the Secretary of Health
and Human Services to transmit the information in the NDNH to the
Social Security Administration to verify the accuracy of the name,
social security number, and birth date of each individual.
``Unemployment compensation or claim information'' is defined in
paragraph (a)(3) as: (1) Whether an individual is receiving, has
received or has applied for unemployment compensation; (2) the
individual's name and current (or most recent) home address; (3) the
individual's social security number; and 4) the aggregate gross amount
of compensation the claimant received during the reporting quarter.
The proposed paragraph (b) of 45 CFR 303.108 contains the
requirements for quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims
reporting. Under proposed paragraph (b), the State would be required to
disclose quarterly, to the National Directory of New Hires, wage and
claim information, as defined in paragraph (a), that is collected
pursuant to a State's unemployment compensation program referenced in
Title III of the Act or pursuant to section 1137 of the Act. OCSE does
not propose to require the collection or reporting of any additional
wage information for purposes of the NDNH beyond that which is
currently being collected. Wage and unemployment claim information is
currently reported to agencies administering unemployment compensation
laws under title III of the Act or to other agencies pursuant to
section 1137(a) of the Act as part of the income and eligibility
verification program, so proposed paragraph (b) will not impose an
additional information requirement. OCSE is also aware that some
States' compensation records either do not include employee names or
record only a partial set of the letters in the employee's name.
Similarly, OCSE is aware that State unemployment compensation laws do
not require all employers to report information. In the proposed
regulation, the State is only required to supply wage information which
is already contained in the records of the State. Therefore, in the
case of employee names or wages, a State is required to send us as much
information on employee names or wages as exists in the unemployment
compensation records, or in the records maintained for purposes of
section 1137 of the Act if the information is maintained by another
agency. The reference to section 1137 has been included to cover those
situations where States have alternate data collection systems to make
it clear that the data in such alternate systems would be covered by
the regulation.
Similarly, the State is only required to supply claim information
which is already contained in the records of the State agency
administering the unemployment compensation program or the records
maintained for purposes of section 1137 of the Act. There is no
requirement being imposed to collect additional claim information for
purposes of the NDNH. In addition, the State is only being required to
furnish the NDNH with claim information that is processed
electronically. OCSE believes that it is neither feasible nor cost
effective to require that States transmit claims data for those
relatively few benefit programs which are processed manually. State
Employment Security Agencies and the Department of Labor have indicated
that manually processed claims comprise a very small portion of total
claims. We understand that the unemployment compensation programs being
administered by States cover any compensation payable under State
unemployment compensation law (including amounts payable in accordance
with agreements under any Federal unemployment compensation law) and
extended benefits, unemployment compensation for Federal employees,
unemployment compensation for ex-servicemen, trade readjustment
allowances, and disaster unemployment assistance. We invite comment
regarding the regulatory language and whether it appropriately covers
these benefits.
The proposed 45 CFR 303.108(c) sets the time frames for quarterly
wage and claims reporting. The State would be required to report wage
information for the reporting period no later than the end of the
fourth month following the reporting period. For the reporting period
of July-September, 1997, the first period for which wage reporting
would be required, the State would be required to furnish wage
information to the Secretary no later than January 31, 1998. Currently,
State laws generally allow employers one month following the reporting
period to report quarterly wages to the State agency administering the
unemployment compensation program. We believe that the time frame for
States to report wage information to the Secretary for the purposes of
the NDNH will ensure that States have adequate time to enter, edit, and
transmit wage information to the Secretary. Given the necessity and
importance of maintaining accurate wage data in the NDNH, the proposed
schedule for reporting allows States ample time to work with employers
to correct inaccurate wage reports and to submit complete and
comprehensive wage information on employees within a State.
The State would be required to report claim information for the
reporting period no later than the end of the first month following the
end of the reporting period. The State would be required to begin the
reporting of claim information for the reporting period of October-
December, 1997. We believe that a shorter time frame for submitting
claim information, as opposed to wage information, is appropriate
because the State agency charged with administering the unemployment
compensation program maintains this data on an ongoing basis. Also, as
noted above, the collection of wage information lags behind the
collection of claim information because of the time required to ensure
that wage information submitted is accurate.
In order to ensure the effective implementation of the NDNH, the
Secretary is planning a staggered schedule for initial data submissions
to the NDNH. The reporting of new hire data will begin on October 1,
1997, followed by initial quarterly wage and claims information
submissions on January 31, 1998. For this reason, the Secretary will
require that claims
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information be submitted for the period beginning October-December,
1997, rather than July-September, 1997.
The proposed 45 CFR 303.108(d) provides that the Secretary will
establish standardized formats for reporting quarterly wage and claim
information and that the States will be required to adhere to such
formats for reporting purposes. The formats identify the data elements,
descriptions and tape specifications for reporting quarterly wage and
claim information. These formats were published in the Federal Register
for comment on July 25, 1997 (62 FR 40092).
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
Sections 453A(g)(2)(B) and 303(h) of the Act and section
3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 contain information
collection requirements. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507(d)), the Administration for Children and Families
has submitted a copy of this section to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for its review.
As discussed earlier, sections 453A(g)(2)(B) and 303(h) of the Act,
and section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, require
various State entities to furnish to the Secretary of Health and Human
Services or the National Directory of New Hires, on a quarterly basis,
data concerning the wages and unemployment compensation paid to
individuals. The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human
Services is required to publish regulations to identify the dates,
format, and data elements necessary for States to furnish this data.
The purpose of these requirements is to develop a repository of
information on the earnings and unemployment compensation claims data
on all employees to provide the necessary information to locate
individuals for child support purposes, as well as for other specified
purposes in Title IV-D of the Act. This data will be combined with new
hire data to be reported to the NDNH pursuant to section 453A of the
Act. Quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims data will
provide for the location of continuously employed and unemployed
individuals who would not be located by new hire reporting.
All 50 States, as well as the District of Columbia, the Virgin
Islands, and Puerto Rico, will be required to report quarterly wage and
unemployment compensation claims data to the NDNH. The proposed
regulation requires the State to disclose quarterly, to the NDNH, wage
and claim information that is currently being collected pursuant to a
State's unemployment compensation program referenced in Title III of
the Act or pursuant to section 1137 of the Act. Wage information is
defined to include: (1) the name of the employee; (2) the employee's
social security number; (3) aggregate wages of the employee during the
reported period; and, (4) the name, address (and optionally, any second
address for wage withholding purposes), and Federal employer
identification number of the employer reporting wages under a State
unemployment compensation law. Claim information is defined as: (1) The
status of an individual's claim for unemployment compensation (i.e., is
receiving, has received, or has made application for benefits); (2) The
individual's name and current (or most recent) home address; (3) the
individual's social security number; and, (4) the aggregate gross
amount of compensation the claimant received during the reporting
quarter. To ensure that public comments have maximum effect in
developing the final regulations, ACF urges that each commenter clearly
identify the specific section or sections of the regulations that the
comment addresses and that comments be in the same order as the
regulations.
Because all quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims
data will be reported from the State to the NDNH electronically and
will be limited to data already being collected, the burden on the
States will be minimal. The average burden per response is estimated to
be 2 minutes (.03 hours). States may also have a one-time initial
start-up burden of two weeks (80 hours) for reprogramming their systems
to comply with Federal reporting requirements. The total annual
reporting and recordkeeping burden that will result from the collection
of information is estimated to be 7.13 hours.
The Administration for Children and Families will consider comments
by the public on this proposed collection of information in:
Evaluating whether the proposed collection is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of ACF, including whether
the information will have practical utility;
Evaluating the accuracy of ACF's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
Enhancing the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimizing the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technology, e.g.,
permitting non-electronic submission of responses.
OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of
information contained in these proposed regulations between 30 and 60
days after publication of this document in the Federal Register.
Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication. This does not affect the
deadline for the public to comment to the Department on the proposed
regulations. Written comments to OMB for the proposed information
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th Street,
N.W., Washington D.C. 20503, Attn: Ms. Wendy Taylor.
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The Secretary certifies, under 5 U.S.C. 605(b), as enacted by the
Regulatory Flexibility Act (Pub. L. 96-354), that this proposed
regulation will not result in a significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities. The primary impact is on State governments
and individuals. State governments are not considered small entities
under the Act.
Executive Order 12866
Executive Order 12866 requires that regulations be reviewed to
ensure that they are consistent with the priorities and principles set
forth in the Executive Order. The Department has determined that this
proposed rule is consistent with these priorities and principles. The
proposed rule implements the statutory provisions by specifying the
wage and unemployment compensation claims information that must be
reported to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Unfunded Mandates Act
The Department has determined that this proposed rule is not a
significant regulatory action within the meaning of the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-4).
List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 303
Child support, Grant programs/social programs, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs No. 93.563, Child
Support Enforcement Program)
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Dated: July 8, 1997.
Olivia A. Golden,
Principal Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Children and Families.
Approved: August 14, 1997.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary, Department of Health Human Services.
For the reasons discussed above, we propose to amend title 45 CFR
Chapter III of the Code of Federal Regulations as follows:
PART 303--STANDARDS FOR PROGRAM OPERATIONS
1. The authority citation of Part 303 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 651 through 658, 660, 663, 664, 666, 667,
1302, 1396a(a)(25), 1396(d)(2), 1396b(o), 1396b(p) and 1396(k).
2. A new 303.108 is added to read as follows:
Sec. 303.108 Quarterly wage and unemployment compensation claims
reporting to the national directory of new hires.
(a) What definitions apply to quarterly wage and unemployment
compensation claims reporting? When used in this section:
(1) Reporting period means time elapsed during a calendar quarter,
e.g. January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December.
(2) Wage information means:
(i) The name of the employee;
(ii) The social security number of the employee;
(iii) The aggregate wages of the employee during the reporting
period; and
(iv) The name, address (and optionally, any second address for wage
withholding purposes), and Federal employer identification number of an
employer reporting wages.
(3) Unemployment compensation or claim information means:
(i) Whether an individual is receiving, has received or has applied
for unemployment compensation;
(ii) The individual's name and current (or most recent) home
address;
(iii) The individual's social security number; and
(iv) The aggregate gross amount of compensation the claimant
received during the reporting quarter.
(b) What data must be transmitted to the National Directory of New
Hires? The State shall disclose quarterly, to the National Directory of
New Hires, wage and claim information as defined in paragraph (a) that
is collected pursuant to a State's unemployment compensation program
referenced in Title III of the Act or pursuant to section 1137 of the
Act.
(c) What time frames apply for reporting quarterly wage and
unemployment compensation claims data? The State shall report wage
information for the reporting period no later than the end of the
fourth month following the reporting period. The State shall report
claim information for the reporting period no later than the end of the
first month following the reporting period.
(d) What reporting formats will be used for reporting data? The
State must use standardized formats established by the Secretary of
Health and Human Services for reporting wage and claim information.
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