Benefits Program: UI: Unemployment Insurance
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COBOLing Together UI Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Affect Aggregate Consumption
States with antiquated COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems experienced significant delays in processing claims during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Data drive updates to state unemployment insurance systems
This article highlights how state unemployment insurance (UI) agencies are leveraging data to modernize systems and enhance access for unemployed workers.
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Summer of CX Webinar Series: CX Metrics for Decision Making
This webinar session discusses the importance of using CX metrics to guide agency-level decisions and how to gather, analyze, and apply customer feedback to optimize products and services.
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Digital Benefit Beacons: Where Policy Meets Practice at BenCon 2024
Michigan's UIA director, Julia Dale, is leading the agency through transition by prioritizing lived experience, hope, grit, and values. Virginia's SNAP Program Manager, Michele Thomas, highlighted the success of Sun Bucks, a summer EBT child nutrition program that fed over 700,000 kids in its first year.
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Takeoff Velocity and Rocket Fuel: How to Continue Forward Momentum at BenCon 2024
NYC's My File NYC and New Jersey's unemployment insurance system improvements demonstrate how successful digital innovations can be scaled across various programs, leveraging trust-building, open-source technology, and strategic partnerships.
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California Employment Development Department: Identity Proofing Questions for Vendors
This artifact shows questions that the California EDD asked identity proofing vendors to respond to during a 2023 technology acquisition process.
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What are the Coronavirus Stimulus Payments?
University of Michigan Poverty Solutions webpage describing how to access COVID stimulus check payments.
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Department of Labor Equity Action Plan
This document, submitted in response to Executive Order 13985 on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities, summarizes key aspects of DOL’s principles and approach to advancing equity. One of the five areas outlined includes administering and improving the federal-state Unemployment Insurance systems.
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California Employment Development Department: Identity Proofing Demonstration Day Flyer
This flyer provides an overview of CA EDD's Identity Proofing Demo Day approach and agenda.
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Unemployment Insurance Technology Modernization Act of 2021
A bill proposed by Senator Wyden to modernize the technology for delivering unemployment compensation.
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Federal Standards Needed to Provide Equitable Access to Unemployment Insurance
This report explains how revised federal performance standards can be a powerful tool for increasing equitable access to UI benefits.
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Improving State Unemployment Insurance Technology: A Guide for Advocates
This guide is intended to provide everything else, with a focus on the basics of UI technology projects, guidance on standards for equitable uses of technology, and strategies for how to have a positive impact on these projects.