[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 16, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9052-9054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-3469]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Comment Request for Information Collection for the Unemployment
Insurance (UI) Facilitation of Claimant Reemployment Employment and
Training Administration 9047 Report, Extension Without Revision
AGENCY: Employment and Training Administration (ETA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This program helps to
ensure that the requested data can be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Employment and Training Administration is soliciting
comments concerning the collection of data about the proposed extension
of the UI Facilitation of Claimant Reemployment (current expiration
date is July 31, 2011).
A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be
obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section
of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addressee's section below on or before April 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to Andrew W. Spisak, Office of Workforce
Security, Employment and Training Administration, U. S. Department of
Labor, Room S-4519, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210;
telephone: 202-693-3196 (this is not a toll-free number); fax: 202-693-
3975; e-mail: [email protected].
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Required by Congress under the Government Performance and Results
Act of 1993 (GPRA), the Department's Strategic Plan is an integral part
of the budget process. Among the purposes of the GPRA are to improve
Federal program effectiveness and public accountability by focusing on
program results, service quality, and customer satisfaction.
Outcome Goal 1.3 in the Department's fiscal year (FY) 2011--2016
Strategic Plan--Help workers who are in low-wage jobs or out of the
labor market find a path into middle-class jobs--focuses on improving
the operational performance and effectiveness of the federal/state UI
program. This goal is supported in part by the performance measure:
Percent of UI claimants reemployed by the end of the first
quarter after the quarter in which they received their first
payment.
ETA collects the data to measure the facilitation of reemployment
of UI benefit recipients through the ETA 9047 report. OMB approved the
Department's request to begin collecting UI reemployment data through
the ETA 9047 report on July 26, 2005. This data collection was renewed
in 2008 through July 31, 2011.
ETA has also included UI reemployment as a performance measure for
UI Performs, the Department of Labor's performance management system.
Per UI Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-08 (May 14, 2008), Acceptable
Levels of Performance (ALP)--the minimum performance criteria for UI
Performs Core Measures--are set annually for each state. The ALPs take
into account the state's total unemployment rate and the percentage of
UI claimants who are exempt from active work search or Employment
Service registration requirements because they are job attached.
Analyses of the data indicate that UI reemployment is strongly related
to these two factors.
Data Collection
Each calendar quarter, states report on the ETA 9047 report
separate counts for individuals receiving their first UI payments who
are exempt from work search/employment service registration
(``exempt''), in most cases because they are job-attached with definite
recall dates, and those who must conduct work search or register with
the employment service (``nonexempt''). States also report on the ETA
9047 report the number of those first payment recipients for whom
intrastate or out-of-state employers reported wages in the subsequent
quarter. States obtain these counts by running computer crossmatches of
the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of the claimants who received a
first UI payment with the UI wage records for the subsequent calendar
quarter. ETA issued instructions on obtaining out-of-state reemployment
data through matching the SSNs of UI first payment recipients with UI
wage records in the National Directory of New Hires in UIPL No. 1-06,
Change 1 (August 2, 2006).
UI Reemployment GPRA and UI Performs Measures
The UI reemployment GPRA and UI Performs measures are defined as
the percentage of all UI claimants receiving a first payment in a
calendar quarter who were paid wages in the following calendar quarter
that appear in UI wage records.
ETA believes that this measure encourages the agencies that
administer UI-which share responsibility with all Workforce Investment
partners in facilitating the reemployment of UI beneficiaries--to be
innovative in the steps they take to facilitate these individuals'
reemployment.
The following table summarizes GPRA targets and performance for the
UI reemployment measure.
GPRA Targets and Performance
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Goal and indicator FY 2010 target FY 2010 actual FY 2011 target FY 2012 target
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Facilitate Reemployment: 58.6% 53.1%* 54.4% 56.40%
Percent of UI claimants who were
reemployed by the end of the
first quarter after the quarter
in which they received their
first payment..................
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* Based on UI reemployment for the period July 2009 to June 2010, which is the most recent data available.
ETA's analyses of the UI reemployment data show that state
performance in reemployment of UI benefit recipients is influenced by
forces outside the control of the agency administering the state UI
law, most notably by the economic conditions in the state, as measured
by the total unemployment rate, and the percent of UI benefit
recipients that are on temporary layoff, as measured by the percent of
claimants who are not required to search for work or register with the
state employment service. State ALPs for the UI Performs Core Measure
reflect state-specific data for these two factors. State ALPs and
performance for the performance period January to December 2009 are
available at http://www.oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/pdf/alp.pdf.
II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments
which:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
III. Current Actions
Type of Review: Extension without change.
Title: Unemployment Insurance Facilitation of Claimant
Reemployment.
OMB Number: 1205-0452.
Affected Public: State Workforce Agencies (SWAs).
Form: ETA 9047 Reemployment of UI Benefit Recipients.
Total Annual Respondents: 53 SWAs.
Annual Frequency: Quarterly.
Total Annual Responses: 212 per year (53 SWAs x 4 quarterly reports
per year).
Average Time per Response: 10 hours.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,120 hours.
Total Annual Burden Cost for Respondents: $86,517 (approximately
$1,633 per SWA). This is an established data collection for which no
changes are proposed; there are no startup costs.
Comments submitted in response to this request will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they will also become a
matter of public record.
Dated: February 10, 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration.
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