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Sources Used and Considered Most Effective to Ensure Accurate Payments
15. Data sharing: Indicate whether or not your State utilizes this source to better ensure accurate payments under the program. (This question also asked State agencies to indicate when in the process the source is used, and/or how often that source is used, and the 3 items considered the most effective.)
Regarding data sharing, Exhibit 15 shows what data sources State agencies most frequently report using and consider most effective to ensure accurate payments:
- Twenty State agencies report using other human service programs in your agency/State to better ensure payment accuracy (AL, AZ, CA(DSS), CT, GA, KS, KY, MA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, PR, UT, WA, WV). Ten State agencies rate this source as most effective (AZ, CT, GA, KS, MN, MS, MO, NC, UT).
- Nineteen State agencies report using Child Support to better ensure payment accuracy (AL, AZ, CT, KS, MA, MD, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, UT, WA, WV, WI). Nine State agencies rate this source as most effective (AZ, CT, KS, MD, MN, MO, NC, WA, WV).
- Nineteen State agencies report using SSI – Supplemental Security Income (SSI) data to ensure payment accuracy (AL, AZ, CA(DSS), CT, GA, KS, MD, MS, MO, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PR, UT, WA, WV, WI). Three State agencies rate this source as most effective (MD, MS, WV).
- Seventeen State agencies report using SSA – Social Security number verification (AL, AZ, CA(DSS), CT, GA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PR, UT,WI). One State agency GA rates this source as most effective.
Exhibit 15 shows the cumulative responses of 24 State agencies regarding use and ratings of 26 sources to ensure accurate payments. (See Appendix 15 for individual State agencies’ responses.)
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Exhibit 15. Data Sources Used and Considered Most Effective to Ensure Accurate Payments |
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| Source | Total States | |
|---|---|---|
| Used as Data Source | Indicated as Most Effective | |
| a. Income Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) | AZ, CA2, MD, MA, MN, MO, NE, NH, OK, WA, WI | CA2, MO, OK, WA, WI |
| b. Other human services programs in your agency/State | AL, AZ, CA2, CT, GA, KS, KY, MA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, PR, UT, WA, WV | AZ, CT, GA, KS, MN, MS, MO, NC, UT |
| c. State department of labor or employment security | AZ, CA2, CT, GA, MD, MN, MS, MO, NE, NH, NC, OK, WA, WI | AZ, CA2, MD, NC, OK, WI |
| d. State directory of new hires | CA2, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, OK, UT, WA, WI | CA2, WA |
| d. State directory of new hires | AZ, CT, MT, NE, NC, OK, WI | |
| f. Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) | MD, MO, NE, OK, UT, WA, WI | UT |
| g. State data (from other States) on length of TANF receipt | CA2, KY, MN, NH, NC, OK | |
| h. State data (from other States) on potential concurrent TANF receipt | CA2, MA, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, OK, WA, WV, WI | |
| i. State data (from other States) on client or provider debarment from benefits, for fraud or other infraction | CA2, KY, MA, MN, MO, MT, NC, OK, WV | |
| j. Lottery agencies | AZ, MO, NH, OK | |
| k. Prisons and criminal justice agencies at State level | AZ, CA2, CT, MA, MN, MO, MT, NC, UT, WV, WI | MN |
| l. National Criminal Information Center (NCIC) | AZ, CA2, CT, MA, MN, MO, MT, NC, UT, WV, WI | |
| m. Local jails | AZ, CA2, CT, MO, MT, OK, UT | |
| n. Credit bureaus | AZ | |
| o. Financial institutions | AZ, MN, MS, NE, NH, OK | |
| p. State tax intercepts | AZ, CA2, CT, KY, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, UT, WI | MS |
| q. Immigration authorities | AZ, CA2, CT, KS, MD, MN, NE, NH, OK, WI | KS |
| r. K-12 school systems | AL, AZ, CA, MO, NH, NC, OH, WV, WI | WV |
| s. Community colleges | AL, AZ, CA, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, WA, WV | WA |
| t. Other providers of services, education, training | AL, AZ, CA, CT, MN, MO, MT, NE, NH, OH, UT, WA, WV | |
| u. Child support | AL, AZ, CT, KS, MD, MA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, UT, WA, WV, WI | AZ, CT, KS, MD, MN, MO, NC, WA, WV |
| v. Social Security Administration (SSA) form W-2 (wage statements) | AL, AZ, CA2, GA, MD, MA, MN, MS, NC, OH, PR, UT, WV, WI | GA |
| w. SSA Social Security number verification | AL, AZ, CA2, CT, GA, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PR, UT, WI | NC |
| x. SSA Supplemental Security Income (SSI) data | AL, AZ, CA2, CT, GA, KS, MD, MS, MO, NE, NH, NC, OH, OK, PR, UT, WA, WV, WI | MD, MS, WV |
| y. SSI death information | CA2, MD, MN, MO, NE, NH, OH, OK, PR, UT, WA, WI | |
| z. Other | AZ, MT, NE, OK | |
Exhibit 15. Data Sources Used and Considered Most Effective to Ensure Accurate Payments
