Employment and Training Administration Advisory System U.S. Department of Labor
Washington, D.C. 20210 |
CLASSIFICATION
UI CORRESPONDENCE SYMBOL OWS/DPM DATE April 25, 2003 |
ADVISORY: | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PROGRAM LETTER No.25-03 |
TO: | ALL STATE WORKFORCE AGENCIES |
FROM: | CHERYL ATKINSON /s/ Administrator Office of Workforce Security | |
SUBJECT: | Request for State Participation in a Pilot Test to Measure the Reemployment Rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claimants |
RESCISSIONS | EXPIRATION DATE |
None | April 30, 2004 |
ETA has established measures for all four goals and established criteria for the first three. As discussed in UIPL No. 15-03, ETA determined that an entered employment measure -- the rate at which UI claimants become reemployed -- best reflects how well the UI system facilitates the reemployment of UI claimants. Although states measure the reemployment rates of certain categories of job seekers in the ETA 9002C, 9002D (veterans), and 9049 (UI claimants referred to reemployment service through profiling) reports, no current reporting system measures how well the UI program facilitates the reemployment of UI claimants. Therefore, we are soliciting state participation to test a procedure for measuring the reemployment of UI claimants. Data from this test will be used to establish a reemployment baseline that will be used to establish a national goal for GPRA.
4. The Measure. ETA carefully considered several options for measuring the reemployment of UI claimants and concluded that a crossmatch of the Social Security Numbers (SSN) of all claimants who received intrastate first payments in a quarter against the intrastate wage records for the subsequent two quarters is the best method for obtaining reemployment data. Using wages as a proxy for employment, this measure will show the percent of intrastate claimants who become reemployed within one and two quarters of receiving a first UI payment.
We believe that this is the best method for measuring reemployment because it:
5. Pilot Description. To acquire recent information in the shortest period of time, states participating in the pilot will be asked to identify persons who received a first payment in each quarter of calendar year (CY) 2002. The states will then crossmatch the SSN of the claimants with the UI wage records for each of the two quarters following the quarter of first payment and count every match for those SSNs with wages. The one-quarter and two-quarter entered employment rates will equal the ratios of total wage record matches in each of the quarters to the number of claimants who receive a first payment, adjusted for severance and vacation pay and partial unemployment, as described in section 4. The Department of Labor (DOL) will collect no information that identifies an individual. Technical specifications are attached.
ETA will enter into a cooperative agreement with up to four states to conduct the pilot. Each state will receive up to $2,500 for costs incurred for programming, conducting the crossmatches, and reporting the results.
In addition to providing the entered employment rates, pilot states will be asked to provide cost estimates for both initial programming and quarterly run costs. All pilot data must be provided to the National Office no later than September 30, 2003.
6. Action Required. State agencies that are interested in participating in the pilot should notify their ETA Regional Administrator and the National Office no later than May 30, 2003. National Office notification should be addressed to Andrew Spisak at spisak.andrew@dol.gov or at the following address:
7. Inquiries.Direct questions to the appropriate Regional Office.
8. Attachments.
Technical Specifications for the UI Measure for Reemployment Facilitation.