UI Modernization NJ Success Glossary

Revision History

Date	Version	Description	Author
02/10/04	1.0		Workgroup

Table of Contents Glossary

1. Introduction
1.1 The New Jersey Department of Labor is in the progress of modernizing the Unemployment Insurance Program. The project includes the reengineering of the business processes, and the system processes needed to support these new business processes. The Use Cases describe our business requirements and the system requirements needed to support these requirements. The Glossary will enable readers to understand basic acronyms used by the department when describing our requirements.

1.2 Scope

2. Definitions

2.1 ABT – Additional Benefits while in Training

2.2 ACSES – Automated Child Support Enforcement System

2.3 ADDITIONAL CLAIM- An unemployment claim filed during an established benefit year following a break in benefit payments due to employment.

2.4 AG – Attorney General

2.5 AGENT STATE – The state where the claimant resides.

2.6 ALTERNATE BASE YEAR 1 – The four most recent completed calendar quarters.

2.7 ALTERNATE BASE YEAR 2 – The three most recent completed calendar quarters before the date of the new claim and the weeks in the filing quarter up to the date of claim.

2.8 AT- Appeal Tribunal The first appellate division within the department.

2.9 Appellant – The individual who files an appeal.

2.10 Appellate Specialist – The person in the Board of Review who conducts the first level of review

2.11 BAM – Benefit Accuracy Measurement

2.12 BASE YEAR – First four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately before the date of the new claim.

2.13 BASE YEAR EMPLOYER – An employer that the claimant worked for during the base year.

2.14 BC-131 – A NJDOL form used to investigate and obtain an employer’s status.

2.15 BENEFIT YEAR – 364 days immediately following the date of the new claim.

2.16 BPC – Bureau of Benefit Payment Control

2.17 BPS&S – Bureau of Program Services & Standards

2.18 BR – Board of Review – The highest appellate division within the agency.

2.19 BTQ – Benefit Timeliness and Quality

2.20 BTR – Benefit Timeliness Review

2.21 BUC – Business Use Case

2.22 BYE – Benefit year ending date The day in which the new claim expires.

2.23 CERTIFICATION – A form used to claim continued weeks of unemployment benefits.

2.24 COLLATERAL CLAIMS – A section in central office that processes and/or reviews TRA, DUA, UCX, UCFE, and the transfer of NJ wages for CWC in other states.

2.25 COD – Certificate of Debt .

2.26 CWE – Compensable Week Ending Date

2.27 DCA – Denied Claims Accuracy

2.28 DDU – Disability during Unemployment

2.29 DD214 – A military form which is issued to an ex-service member at the time of discharge from the military.

2.30 DOC – Date of Claim

2.31 DOC – Dept. of Corrections

2.32 DOJ – Dept of Justice

2.33 DOR – Department of Revenue

2.34 DUA – Disaster Unemployment Assistance

2.35 ECF – Electronic Case File

2.36 EMPLOYER ACCOUNTS – A unit within the Division of Taxation which is responsible for employer accounts.

2.37 ERI – Eligibility Review Interview An interview conducted to determine claimant’s continued eligibility for unemployment benefits.

2.38 ERI Code – Eligibility Review Interview Code A code given to claimants to determine who needs assistance in their work search efforts.

2.39 ERP – Eligibility Review Program. A program developed to review and assist claimants in their continued eligibility for unemployment benefits.

2.40 ES – Employment Service

2.41 ES931 – The form which is sent to Federal employers for wages and separation information.
2.42 FCCC – Florida Claims Control Center

2.43 FDW – First Day Worked

2.44 FEIN – Federal Employer Identification Number

2.45 FIPS – Federal Information Processing Standards

2.46 FIT – Federal Income Tax

2.47 GMC – Gross Misconduct

2.48 IBWI – This gives the agent access to the WIC screen, which stands for withdrawal / invalid claim.

2.49 ICON – Interstate Coordinated Online Network. An electronic transfer of claim information between NJ and other states including Washington, D.C., Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Canada, and FCCC.

2.50 INITIAL CLAIM – An unemployment claim which includes new claims, additional claims, and reopened/reasserted claim types.

2.51 INS – Immigration & Naturalization Services

2.52 INTRASTATE CLAIM – A claim filed in NJ where NJ is the paying state.

2.53 INTERSTATE AGENT CLAIM – An unemployment claim filed in NJ against another state due to out of state employment.

2.54 IRS – Internal Revenue Service

2.55 IVR – Interactive Voice Response

2.56 Labor Market Statistics

2.57 LAG EMPLOYER – An employer that the claimant worked for during the lag period, the time between the end of the base year of the new claim and the actual date of claim.

2.58 LADT – Liable Agent State Data Transfer. A system which transmits liable state claims data to an agent state.

2.59 LAN – Local Area Network

2.60 LIABLE STATE – The state that is liable to pay unemployment benefits on an unemployment claim.

2.61 LDW – Last day of Work

2.62 MBA – Maximum Benefit Allowance

2.63 NEW CLAIM – An unemployment claim that established a new benefit year.

2.64 NJDOL – New Jersey Department of Labor

2.65 OSOS – One Stop Operating System- A web system used by customers and staff on Workforce development tasks.

2.66 PACER – Public Access to Court Electronic Record

2.67 PC – Program Code

2.68 Profiling – A coding system used to identify claimants who are in the need of PROS assistance.

2.69 PROS – Project Reemployment Opportunity System

2.70 PWBR – Partial Weekly Benefit Rate

2.71 REASSERTED/REOPENED CLAIM – An unemployment claim filed during an established benefit year following a break in benefits for reasons other than employment.

2.72 Respondent – Defendant

2.73 SAVE – Systematic Alien Verification Entitlement

2.74 SEA – Self Employment Assistance

2.75 SOIL – Set Off of Individual Liability

2.76 SSD – Social Security Disability

2.77 SSN – Social Security Number

2.78 State Plan – A type of disability program administered by NJDOL

2.79 SUC – System Use Case

2.80 TRA – Trade Readjustment Act

2.81 UCFE – Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees. An unemployment claim established using federal civilian wages.

2.82 UCX – Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Service Members. An unemployment claim established using military wages.

2.83 UI – Unemployment Insurance and Disability During Unemployment Programs

2.84 USDOL – United States Department of Labor

2.85 VERIS – A software system for identifying invalid Social Security Numbers.

2.86 WAGE- Wage Reporting System A system responsible for collecting quarterly wage information from NJ employers.