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Locate. What Can You Do When You Have To Dig Deeper. ERICSA 2011 Atlantic City, New Jersey. Cristol Porter FPLS State Technical Support Liaison Northrop Grumman Information Systems Cristol.porter@ngc.com Carla West Program Manager YoungWilliams, PC cwest@ywcss.com.
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Locate What Can You Do When You Have To Dig Deeper ERICSA 2011 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Cristol Porter FPLS State Technical Support Liaison Northrop Grumman Information Systems Cristol.porter@ngc.com Carla West Program Manager YoungWilliams, PC cwest@ywcss.com
Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) • Provides everything you need • Addresses • Income • Assets • The FPLS is your one stop shop!
Having Locate Issues? • Are you relying solely on internal sources? • Have you tried the FPLS? Why Not? • Always improving • Finding new sources • Proactive matching with NDNH • National resource
Need Addresses? • National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) • New Hire (W-4) • Quarterly Wage (QW) • Unemployment Insurance (UI) • Multistate Financial Institution Data Match (MSFIDM) • Insurance Match (IM)
Need Addresses? • External Locate Sources • Department of Defense (DoD) • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • National Security Agency (NSA) • Social Security Administration (SSA) • Veteran’s Administration (VA) • National Change of Address (NCOA)
Need income? • NDNH • W-4 is fresh, reliable new hire data • QW includes amount and percentage of change • UI benefits for applicants and recipients • External locate sources • SSA (SSD, SSI, prisoner) • VA (benefit) • DOD (military income and federal retirees)
Need income? • SSA Title II Pending Claim File • Attach lump sum • State Services Portal • Returns DoD entitlement details • Effective July 2011 Coming
Need Assets? • Multistate Financial Institution Data Match (MSFIDM) • Checking/savings account, IRA • Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Match • Match with federal employees’ retirement plan • Returned quarterly New
Want to find other income? • Federal Offset • Tax refunds • Administrative offset • Insurance Match • Insurers and Workers’ Compensation
Need help? – No problem! • FCR Print Programs • Provide software/code that generate formatted reports from response files • Select responses can be pre-formatted to a report for local print or electronic distribution
One last thought If the FPLS doesn’t have what you need it could be that: • Person is not registered on the Federal Case Registry (FCR) with a verified SSN • Person has a Family Violence Indicator (FVI)
Have questions? • Contact your FPLS State Technical Support Liaison at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newhire/contacts/fcrtscontacts.htm Good Luck with your location efforts!!!
Location Basics Skip Tracing is the ability to think through and analyze the circumstances of each situation individually in order to reach your goal
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GOOGLE!! • By name • By phone number • By email address • By home address • Public Records search
Good Resources Utilize location resources designed to search the entire website, including social networking sites www.wink.com www.spokeo.com www.pipi.com
Social Networking www.facebook.com www.linkedin.com www.myspace.com www.twitter.com www.youtube.com
BE CREATIVE! • Blogs • Craigslist • Domain Searches • Military locate sites • Inmate searches