In the Fall of 2022, the USDOL Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization (OUIM) consulted with the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) to provide hands-on support with IT modernization and customer experience strategy. Primary discussions focused on making informed product, service, and business decisions based on qualitative and quantitative data— how might IDES leverage existing data streams to identify the most pressing technology issues in their unemployment insurance system, and how might IDES act upon this information in a timely and impactful manner?
CMS has identified a number of immediate and longer-term strategies that states can implement to improve application processing timeframes and address application backlogs.
Making your service more inclusive means designing government services so that everyone who needs to use them can do so with as few barriers as possible, by understanding legal duties, identifying and removing exclusion points, and considering a wide range of user needs throughout the design process.
This simulator, created by the Joint Financial Management and Improvement Program (JFMIP), allows users to model program performance for a hypothetical government program, based on different identity verification decisions. The simulator illustrates concepts from the JFMIP report on payment integrity.
Joint Financial Management and Improvement Program (JFMIP)
This playbook provides government-wide guidance for planning, procuring, and managing digital, data, and technology (DDaT) projects with a focus on innovation, agile delivery, cybersecurity, sustainability, and commercial best practices.
This framework provides practical guidance, detailed reference designs, and example solutions to help organizations securely adopt and operationalize Zero Trust principles across diverse IT environments.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
This field guide provides research-based design principles for creating clear, usable forms that help voters accurately complete election-related paperwork and successfully take action.
The GAO placed the UI system on its High Risk List in June 2022, leading the DOL to develop a transformation plan detailing activities and strategies for building a resilient UI system capable of responding effectively to future economic challenges.
Biometric identification technologies—such as facial recognition and fingerprinting—can affect underserved communities, including low-income and minority communities. GAO interviewed academics, advocacy groups, and technology experts to find out how.
