DCL-98119 New Hire Data Summary

DCL-98-119

Date: Nov 16, 1998

TO: ALL IV-D DIRECTORS

RE: New Hire Data Summary

Dear Colleague:

As you know, States began submitting New Hire information to the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) on October 1, 1997. In a continuous effort to maintain the quality of child support data and to provide you with feedback, we have prepared a table about your State’s New Hire data that contain statistics from the first year of NDNH implementation. In addition, there is a chart and a supplementary table which compares the contribution of each Region and State to overall national New Hire data. The attached tables and chart provide information regarding the volume of data submitted and the quality of the data received. Please review this information carefully.

Table 1 provides the following information about your State’s New Hire submissions:

number of records submitted by your State from October 1, 1997 – September 30, 1998;
number of records posted (passed the SSA verification routines) to the NDNH;
percent of records that were unverified (did not pass the SSA verification routines) as compared to the national average;
the rejection rate (percent of records that were not posted to NDNH because of incomplete data or duplicate batch numbers) as compared to the national average; and
the contribution your State made to the total number of New Hire records submitted by your Region.

Chart 1 provides the following information about your Region’s New Hire submissions:

percent of contribution each region made to the total (national) number of New Hire records submitted.

Table 2 is also included as supplementary data to Chart 1. If you have any questions about this information, please contact Danny Markley at (202) 401-3440.

Sincerely,

David Gray Ross
Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement

Enclosure

cc: State New Hire Contacts
Regional Program Managers
Regional New Hire Contacts