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LABOR DEPT. AWARDED INTERNET TECHNOLOGY GRANT
Grant will lay foundation for unemployment insurance
program customer choice
Alaska has been selected to receive a $912,712 Unemployment
Insurance (UI) Remote Systems (UIRS) Grant, the Alaska Department of
Labor and Workforce Development announced today.
This is the seventh year the U.S. Department of Labor has offered these
federal grants. Awards are based upon a competitive process to support
state efforts to meet the goals of giving Unemployment Insurance program
customers a choice of technologies in how to participate in the program.
A total of $9 million is being awarded to various states’ UI programs
nationwide.
Alaska’s grant comes as two awards, one for $413.419 in the Internet
Employer Registration category and one for $499,293 in the Internet
Employer Tax and Wage Reporting category. The awards support Alaska’s
efforts to enhance telephone technology and lay the groundwork for
future Internet use in order to deliver quality Unemployment Insurance
services.
The awards are based upon measurable improvements in quality,
convenience and reduced costs to unemployed workers and employers,
strategic design, and technical merit.
Alaska’s UI program processes approximately 65,000 employer tax
contribution reports and payments, collecting and depositing
approximately $120 million into the Alaska account of the Federal UI
Trust Fund each year. From July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2002, over 50,000
people received a UI payment from Alaska’s program, totaling
$132,499,573.00.
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