DCL-9908 New Hire and Quarterly Wage Data Summary

DCL-99-08 Feb 5, 1999

TO: ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES

RE: New Hire and Quarterly Wage Data Summary

Dear Colleague:

As you know, Federal agencies began submitting information on newly hired employees to the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) on October 1, 1997, and quarterly wage information on all Federal employees on January 1, 1998. In a continuous effort to maintain the quality of child support data and to provide you with feedback on your submissions, we have prepared four tables containing information about your Agency’s New Hire (NH) and Quarterly Wage (QW) data from the first year of NDNH operation. Please review this information carefully.

Table 1 (NH data from October 1, 1997 to September 30, 1998) and Table 3 (QW data from January 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998) provide the following information:

Number of NH/QW submissions by your Agency;
Number of NH/QW records submitted by your Agency;
Number of NH/QW records posted (passed through the SSA verification routines) to the NDNH;
Percent of NH/QW records that were unverified (did not pass the SSA verification routines) as compared to the average unverified rate for all Federal agencies; and
Percent of records that were rejected (not posted to the NDNH) because of incomplete data or duplicate batch numbers as compared to the average unverified rate for all Federal agencies.

Table 2 and Table 4 are included if your Agency reports data to the NDNH on behalf of other Federal agencies or reports are made on your agency’s behalf by another Federal agency. Table 2 (NH data from October 1, 1997 to September 30, 1998) and Table 4 (QW data from January 1, 1998 to September 30, 1998) provide the following information:

Number of NH/QW records submitted by each Federal agency being reported under a Federal payroll agency;
Number of NH/QW records posted (passed the SSA verification routines) to the NDNH by each Federal agency being reported under a Federal payroll agency; and
Percent of unverified NH/QW records (did not pass SSA’s verification process), for each Federal agency being reported under a Federal payroll agency.

Thank you for your help as we work together to improve the lives of our nation’s children.

Sincerely,

David Gray Ross
Commissioner
Office of Child Support Enforcement

Enclosures

cc: Federal Agency Contact

National Directory of New Hires (NDNH)
Statistics for Department of Interior

Table 1: New Hire Data - Reporting Period: 10/01/97 to 09/30/98
Number of Submissions	Number of Records Submitted	Number of Records Posted to NDNH	Department of Interior Unverified Rate	Department of Interior Rejection Rate	Average for Federal Agencies Unverified Rate	Average for Federal Agencies Rejection Rate
41	14,391	14,066	2.26%	0.00%	1.99%	13.54%

Table 2: New Hire Records Submitted by Department of Interior - Reporting Period: 10/1/97 to 9/30/98
Federal Agency	Number of New Hire Records Submitted	Number of New Hire Records Posted to NDNH	Unverified Rate
Unverified records are those identified as having a mismatch between the SSN & name or an invalid SSN during the SSN validation process. Rejected records are those identified as submissions with duplicate batch numbers, duplicate records, or records with a nonnumeric SSN.
Department of Interior	13,375	13,066	2.18%
Department of Education	320	314	1.88%
Executive Residence at the White House	8	8	0.00%
Federal Labor Relations Authority	23	22	4.35%
Federal Trade Commission	315	312	0.95%
National Comm. on Libraries and Info. Sciences	1	1	0.00%
National Education Goals Panel	2	2	0.00%
Overseas Private Investment Corp.	98	98	0.00%
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.	88	85	3.41%
Selective Service System	21	20	4.76%
US Holocaust Memorial Council	76	74	2.63%
US International Trade Commission	63	63	0.00%
Utah Reclamation Mitigation & Conservation Commission	1	1	0.00%
Total	14,391	14,066	2.26%

Table 3: Quarterly Wage Data - Reporting Period: 01/01/98 to 09/30/98
Number of Submissions	Number of Records Submitted	Number of Records Posted to NDNH	Department of Interior Unverified Rate	Department of Interior Rejection Rate	Average for Federal Agencies Unverified Rate	Average for Federal Agencies Rejection Rate
Unverified records are those identified as having a mismatch between the SSN & name or an invalid SSN during the SSN validation process. Rejected records are those identified as submissions with duplicate batch numbers, duplicate records, or records with a nonnumeric SSN.
4	234,489	230,453	1.72%	1.57%	0.00%	2.13%

Table 4: Quarterly Wage Records Submitted by Department of Interior - Reporting Period: 01/01/98 to 09/30/98
Federal Agency	Number of New Hire Records Submitted	Number of New Hire Records Posted to NDNH	Unverified Rate
Department of Interior	212,485	208,944	1.67%
Department of Education	9,539	9,313	2.37%
Executive Residence at the White House	357	348	2.52%
Federal Labor Relations Authority	456	449	1.54%
Federal Trade Commission	4,423	4,332	2.06%
National Comm. on Libraries and Info. Sciences	26	24	7.69%
National Education Goals Panel	14	14	0.00%
Overseas Private Investment Corp.	932	908	2.58%
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.	3,148	3,079	2.19%
Selective Service System	440	424	3.64%
US Holocaust Memorial Council	1,012	983	2.87%
US International Trade Commission	1,568	1,546	1.40%
Utah Reclamation Mitigation & Conservation Commission	89	89	0.00%
Total	234,489	230,453	1.72%