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State Agency & Social Security Administration Data Exchange Opportunities

State Agency & Social Security Administration Data Exchange Opportunities. Challenges Facing Government. Increasing workload Decreasing budgets Changing customer demands Rapidly changing technology. SSA Data Sharing. Over 25 years sharing data electronically

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State Agency & Social Security Administration Data Exchange Opportunities

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  1. State Agency & Social Security Administration Data Exchange Opportunities

  2. Challenges Facing Government • Increasing workload • Decreasing budgets • Changing customer demands • Rapidly changing technology

  3. SSA Data Sharing • Over 25 years sharing data electronically • First with welfare & Medicaid agencies • More recently with: • Unemployment Insurance • Workers Compensation

  4. Matches • Current interface with other agencies • Veterans Administration • Office of Personnel Management • Railroad Board • Bureau of Prisons • Medicare

  5. State Needs • Verify names and SSNs • Determine Social Security benefit amounts

  6. State Benefits • Reduced overpayments/fraud • Decreased administrative costs • Improved service

  7. SSA Needs: • TANF payments • Medicaid eligibility dates • Vital records • Current quarterly wage data • Weekly Unemployment Compensation payments for SSI offset purposes • Workers Comp payments

  8. SSA Benefits • Reduced Overpayments • First GAO Report: $131M annually • Improved Customer Service • More one stop processing • Faster claims processing • More timely and accurate payments • Decreased Administrative Costs • $7.50 per follow up visit

  9. SSA Access to State Records Online: SASRO • Used to obtain State agency data • 79 agencies in 45 states participate • 34 HS agencies • 29 UI agencies • 11 WC agencies • 5 VS agencies • Goal: All 50 states

  10. Vital Statistics Pilot Overview Next Generation of SASRO • Electronic Verification of Vital Events (EVVE) Pilots • SSA awarded a contract to NAPHSIS to develop EVVE • NAPHSIS subcontracted software development • NAPHSIS and SSA have started work with Colorado & Missouri on pilots

  11. EVVE Design • Birth and Death Confirmations • SSA field offices employees will enter vital information on screens • Information will pass through a HUB - then to participating state • State will review data and reply through HUB to SSA. Testing indicates a 5 second turnaround.

  12. Approved Requestors Hub Server Diagram . Hub State VS Agencies

  13. Challenges Security: • Eliminate the possibility of browsing • Minimize the potential for unauthorized use How Addressed 1. Yes/No response vs. list of possible matches 2. SSL and VPN 3. Six-step security plan

  14. Next Steps – EVVE • Complete pilots in 8 participating states • Obtain pricing and minimum quantities recommendation • Negotiate price and quantities • Report at next NAPHSIS Annual Meeting

  15. Future Challenges • Revenue Impacts • Start-up Costs • Difference in State laws/regulations/structure • Addition of Other Federal Agencies (e.g., Passport Agency, VA, RRB, etc.)

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