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NCESC Expert Status Adjudication Program

• Beverly Height
• Applications Development Manager/Tax Team
• Phone [phone] x317
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail beverly.height_at_ncmail.net

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Overview

• The NC Expert Status Adjudication Program
  determines the liable status of all new employers
  who are not successors
• Determination is based on the data provided on
  the Employer Status Report

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Features Benefits

• Determines if the employer is already liable
  using the Federal Employer Identification Number
  (FEIN)
• Determines the law section under which the
  employer is liable and the effective date
• Assigns an account number
• Builds the employer root, experience rating,
  special address and owner/officer database
  segments

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Features Benefits

• Determines which liability letter is applicable
  and generates the letter
• Determines if the employer failed to complete any
  required items on the status report and generates
  missing information letters

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Features Benefits

• Determines what quarterly report forms are due
  and generates transactions to print these forms
• Parses the principal activity description and
  assigns the broad band SIC and NAICS codes.

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Applications

• The adjudication of liability status for
  approximately 80 of new employers becomes a
  simple data entry task
• Higher-paid adjudication staff is freed up to
  work on successorships and changes to existing
  accounts

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Specifications

• Application is mainframe-based using COBOL II v4
  and CICS
• The mainframe-based program is the back-end of an
  internet application to allow new employers to
  apply for unemployment insurance coverage
• The browser-based Employer Status Report will be
  linked to the expert system via COMTI and
  Microsoft HIS.

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Availability

• There are two versions of the expert system
  running due to the recent redesign of the
  Employer Status Report
• The internet application is currently being coded
  and tested and is based on the recently revised
  form
• The internet application will be rolled out under
  our new web portal infrastructure which is
  targeted for implementation by the end of
  September

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• Collection of sample mainframe screens from the
  initial application
• Screens are displayed in the order of
  presentation to the user
• Order follows the order of the source document

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• If the employer is determined liable on any of
  the next 5 screens (items 11 through 16), the
  remaining screens will be skipped and the item 17
  screen will be displayed with the law section
  determination displayed at the bottom

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• The following 6 screens represent the root,
  owner/officer, special address and experience
  rating segments created by the program

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