2015-08-14T13:11:11-07:00 2014-09-30 Gurman & Company PLLC 3877 Fairfax Ridge Rd Ste 200N Fairfax VA 220307473 990 2013-10-01 521902649 Center for Employment Security Education and Research Inc CENT 2024348020 444 North Capitol Street NW Washington DC 20001 Scott Sanders Executive Director 2015-08-14 true Paul M Gurman P00069988 7035917200 X 2013 2016-03-07 17:11:31Z 10918549 false false X WWW.NASWA.ORG X 1994 VA The Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) is the leading education, research and information technology center, focusing on workforce development and unemployment insurance issues. 15 15 0 24 0 7921530 6512244 2692933 2853288 3993 4891 0 10618456 9370423 0 0 0 0 0 10636180 9097539 10636180 9097539 -17724 272884 4489197 6343077 4412307 4423304 76890 1919773 X The Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) is the leading education, research and information technology center, focusing on workforce development and unemployment insurance issues. false false 5416118 Unemployment Insurance Technology:The Information Technology Support Center (ITSC) is a national collaboration of the Center, The National Association of State Workforce Agencies (the Association), state workforce agencies, U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL), and the State of Maryland. The ITSC is dedicated to developing and advancing information technology solutions that provide more accurate, cost-effective, and timely service for unemployment insurance (UI) customers and staff. ITSC projects are initiated and overseen by a steering committee, members of which include stated agency, staff (including directors of state unemployment insurance and information technology offices, and state workforce agency administrators) and staff from the USDOL national office.The ITSC is unique in promoting multi-state information technology (IT) initiatives for state agencies. Funded by USDOL, ITSCs strengths include: promoting IT information-sharing among states; developing small-scale, transferable IT solutions; maintaining basic IT products in use by states; educating state staff; and providing IT consulting services.The ITSC works with the Associations Unemployment Insurance (UI) Committee, as well as with the ITSC Steering Committee, to identify and assist with tasks of national and state importance.The Center is under contract with groups of states to provide Quality Assurance and technical advice and support on large scale UI IT Benefits and Tax Modernization projects. Working with several states and states consortium, the Center is assisting in determining the feasibility of multiple states building a common UI automated system or single states improve their UI Modernization. The states contracted with the Center to help them determine common requirements, use cases, and functional designs for the new system. The primary tasking covered under these projects is for the Center to provide: Knowledge of Unemployment Insurance (UI) program;Experience with a modernized UI system;Experience in large software development effort;Prior experience working with UI Consortiums; andUI Business process redesign experience with emphasis on best practices and lessons learned.Under the Unemployment Insurance Performance and Accountability grant, the Center/ITSC will assist USDOL/Employment and Training Administration (ETA) in organizing a Federal/State Working Group that will collaboratively develop and execute a national action agenda to enhance UI program quality and accountability. The Working Group will identify best practices by UI functional areas (e.g., initial claims, adjudication and fact finding, continued claims, and appeals), and identify high quality business processes for the administration and delivery of UI benefits. The overarching goal of the project is to ensure high quality customer services, the expeditious and accurate payment of UI claims, and system safeguards against fraud and abuse. The Working Group will identify best practices for carrying out the four primary functions that make up the benefit payment system, identify tools states can use to do their own business process analysis and reengineering of these four functions, identify new tools for capturing and using data to analyze program processes and performance, and develop an assessment tool for ETA and states to use to identify business functions that need improvement.In addition, the Working Group will develop greater opportunities for networked information sharing and peer-to-peer learning among federal and state partners regarding UI program quality and accountability, and methodologies for disseminating successful practices on an ongoing basis.ETA engaged the Center to initiate a program to better connect unemployment insurance claimants with the larger publicly-funded workforce system by developing a national vision for improving the UI and workforce systems connection and integration. This connectivity initiative was broken into separate related and integrated projects:UI and Workforce Connectivity Phase II collects best practices in support of the national vision developed in Phase I and disseminate these best practices in the ETA Workforce 3One and UI Community of Practice Websites.UI/ES (Employment Services) Connectivity Portal is the implementation of the vision by soliciting and awarding states grants to work with ITSC and ETA in the development of key element ad tools defined in the vision including the Integrated Workforce Registration System, Real Time Triage, and Skills Transferability and Social Networking. 2422142 2768788 Unemployment Insurance Operations:The Unemployment Insurance Separation and Information Data Exchange System (UI SIDES) is subscription services to states based system that enables the communication and transmission of UI separation information request as well as the replies from state UI agencies to multi-state employers and/or third-party administrators (TPAs), containing the requested separation information utilizing a standard format. The technical design and infrastructure of the system has enabled the addition of a number of standard data exchange formats and communications between state UI agencies, employers and TPAs. The functionality allows states to also gather earnings data from employers on UI claimants who returned to work.OccuCoder is a software product developed by the ITSC and licensed by the USDOL. It is available to states for use in the States Workforce Employment and Training programs. To obtain a copy of OccuCoder software a state must first sign the USDOL/ITSC License Agreement for State Agency use of OccuCoder Products. OccuCoder accepts requests that specify the title of a persons occupation, a description of job duties, or both. It returns a message that contains a number of O*NET-SOC occupation codes, together with the corresponding occupation titles, descriptions, and certain ancillary data.A majority of the funding comes from subscriptions services from States. Limited funding comes from a USDOL through the ETA. 581043 Unemployment Insurance Training:The UI Training Center is comprised of training modules that are designed to supplement existing state training. These modules provide a general understanding of UI topics for employees at all levels. The UI Training Center seeks to provide UI federal and state employees training on UI processes and share available UI resources.ETA has engaged the Center to manage the design, development and implementation of an E-learning training program on unemployment insurance that will have live webinars with an interactive component, self-study modules, knowledge checks, periodic live audio Question & Answer (Q & A) and discussion sessions, and use of other media or approaches as determined to be valuable.ETAs Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) is required to ensure conformity and compliance of state unemployment compensation (UC) law, regulations, rules, and operations with Federal law. ETA has engaged the Center to support and assess all states UI lower appeals IT processes to identify what the current processes, procedures, and practices. The assessment would identify deficiencies, or strengths, in current IT systems, workflow processes, communication processes, and statue restrictions. The IT assessment would incorporate a brief review of the higher authority connection for those 48 states that have a second stage appeals. 185319 84500 8604622 true true false false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true false false true false true 17 0 true 0 false false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 15 15 false false false false true true false true true false false false true false false true true false true false X Scott Sanders 2024348022 444 N Capitol St NW Suite 142 Washington DC 20001 Carey Foy Director 1.00 0.00 0 0 0 Larry Temple Past President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Mark Henry President 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Scott Sanders Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Lisa Mallory Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard McPherson Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Ann Shirra Director OF NLX 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dale Smith Director for IT 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dennis Murphy Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Harold Wirths Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Mark Butler Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 John Broadway Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dianne Blumer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jay Rowell Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jeanne Paquette Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Julie Squire Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Celina Bussey Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Catherine Lang Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Teresa Wahlert Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Ellen Golombek President Elect 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Joan Evans Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Valerie Comer Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Renee Olson Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Cheryl Stanton irector 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Pam Bucy Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Jim Apperson Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lori Collins Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Dale Peinecke Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Lana Gordon irector 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Hobbie Executive Dir. 3.40 34.10 X 0 168476 21366 James Black CFO 21.40 16.10 X 0 123881 24672 Robert Simoneau Deputy Executive Director 2.30 35.20 X 0 143463 27048 Louis Ansaldi ITSC Techn. 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If that threshold is met, the income tax position is then measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50 percent likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement. For income tax positions that the Center considers to be uncertain, current and deferred tax liabilities are recognized, or assets derecognized, when it is probable that an income tax liability has been incurred and the amount of the liability is reasonably estimable, or when it was probable that an income tax benefit, such as a tax credit or loss carry-forward, would be disallowed by a taxing authority. false false false false false false false false false false Joseph Vitale ITSC Director 141303 4500 17451 1703 164957 Louis Ansaldi ITSC Techn. Dir. 158022 3000 19287 9676 189985 Richard Hobbie Executive Dir. 160476 8000 20160 1206 189842 Robert Simoneau Deputy Executive Director 138463 5000 17436 9612 170511 Thomas Kusnirik Assist. Tech. Dir. 126339 3000 15510 10259 155108 Form 990, Part III, Line 4d: Other Program Services Description OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: Unemployment Insurance Training:The UI Training Center is comprised of training modules that are designed to supplement existing state training. These modules provide a general understanding of UI topics for employees at all levels. The UI Training Center seeks to provide UI federal and state employees training on UI processes and share available UI resources.ETA has engaged the Center to manage the design, development and implementation of an E-learning training program on unemployment insurance that will have live webinars with an interactive component, self-study modules, knowledge checks, periodic live audio Question & Answer (Q & A) and discussion sessions, and use of other media or approaches as determined to be valuable.ETAs Office of Unemployment Insurance (OUI) is required to ensure conformity and compliance of state unemployment compensation (UC) law, regulations, rules, and operations with Federal law. ETA has engaged the Center to support and assess all states UI lower appeals IT processes to identify what the current processes, procedures, and practices. The assessment would identify deficiencies, or strengths, in current IT systems, workflow processes, communication processes, and statue restrictions. The IT assessment would incorporate a brief review of the higher authority connection for those 48 states that have a second stage appeals. Form 990, Part VI, Line 6: Explanation of Classes of Members or Shareholder The National Association of State Workforce Agencies is sole member of the Organization. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process The Form 990 is reviewed by senior management. Form 990, Part VI, Line 15b: Compensation Review and Approval Process for Officers and Key Employees There are two methods of determining compensation for employees. For a majority of the staff, the President of CESER's Board, a non-salaried position, reviews the salaries and determines the annual salary of mot employees at the beginning of the calendar year. The president is provided with salary comparisons of related jobs in the industry (usually the Federal General Schedule and an independent analysis/salary survey by a compensation firm). The president may consult other Board members at his/her discretion. Other staff members work for a subset of CESER, the Information Technology Support Center (ITSC). ITSC staff have their compensation determined by the ITSC Steering Committee (ITSC STCO). ITSC STCO manages and determines grant and project funding for a majority of the projects for CESER. The president of the Board reviews the ITSC staff salaries but has no input to the salary level. The president of the Board determines the bonuses for all staff with suggestions provided by the Executive Director. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Requests for the organizations governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are evaluated based upon the merits of the request. 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