UI Performs Benefit Accuracy Measurement Program Calendar Year 1996
Calendar year (CY) 1996 data for the Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM) program
is summarized in the following table. The BAM program is one component of UI PERFORMS, the U. S. Department
of Labor's closed-loop system for promoting continuous improvement in UI performance.
UI BAM rates are estimates based on randomly selected samples of UI payments. Overpayment and underpayment
rates do not represent the actual percentages of errors detected in the population. These estimated rates are subject to
sampling and nonsampling errors. The 95 percent confidence intervals are shown for each State's overpayment and
underpayment rates. The interval equals the estimated error rate plus and minus the value indicated in the column (+/!-).
The true error rate is expected to lie within this interval for 95 percent of the samples of the size selected by the State.
The 39,057 UI payments for which data were collected represents a completion rate of 99.9 percent of the cases
sampled in CY 1996. Nonresponse bias is, therefore, not a significant issue. However, other sources of nonsampling
error, such as differences among investigators in the interpretation of State unemployment compensation laws and
administrative procedures, can effect accuracy rate estimates.
Users of this data are strongly advised that State UI benefit accuracy rates cannot be compared, due to differences in
State laws and policies. No performance standards for UI benefit accuracy have been established. Overpayments and
underpayments of UI benefits can be attributed to several causes, many of which cannot be directly controlled by the
State Employment Security Agencies.
A more detailed analysis of this data is available in the UI PERFORMS Benefit Accuracy Measurement CY 1996 Annual Report, which is available by request from the U. S. Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Service, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room S-4522, Washington, DC 20210 (Attn.: Division of Performance Review).
| UI Benefits Quality Control CY 1996 Annual Report | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST | Sample | Amount Paid* |
OP RATE |
+/- | Amount OP* | UP RATE |
+/- | Amount UP* |
| AK | 595 | $95.23 | 6.61% | 1.87 | $6.30 | 1.18% | .51 | $1.13 |
| AL | 840 | $201.35 | 10.01% | 2.02 | $20.15 | .21% | .15 | $.42 |
| AR | 420 | $182.29 | 14.59% | 3.98 | $26.60 | .80% | .59 | $1.46 |
| AZ | 661 | $152.38 | 14.70% | 2.72 | $22.41 | .19% | .13 | $.28 |
| CA | 1,784 | $2,874.40 | 6.51% | 1.16 | $187.21 | .78% | .29 | $22.30 |
| CO | 722 | $177.15 | 9.84% | 2.25 | $17.42 | .63% | .37 | $1.11 |
| CT | 838 | $420.57 | 1.94% | .77 | $8.16 | 1.02% | .37 | $4.29 |
| DC | 480 | $77.45 | 9.14% | 2.51 | $7.08 | 1.56% | .76 | $1.20 |
| DE | 480 | $88.26 | 9.10% | 2.51 | $8.03 | .88% | .44 | $.78 |
| FL | 960 | $647.79 | 6.48% | 1.52 | $42.00 | .97% | .29 | $6.31 |
| GA | 960 | $280.96 | 4.23% | 1.36 | $11.89 | .30% | .13 | $.85 |
| HI | 481 | $176.61 | 3.30% | 1.51 | $5.83 | .46% | .28 | $.82 |
| IA | 547 | $182.87 | 7.57% | 2.05 | $13.84 | 1.21% | .37 | $2.21 |
| ID | 602 | $96.81 | 11.80% | 2.63 | $11.43 | .96% | .60 | $.93 |
| IN | 1,024 | $1,249.81 | 8.55% | 1.77 | $106.81 | .30% | .14 | $3.75 |
| KS | 723 | $133.85 | 6.38% | 1.73 | $8.54 | .29% | .28 | $.39 |
| KY | 847 | $222.94 | 3.67% | 1.18 | $8.18 | .76% | .29 | $1.69 |
| LA | 604 | $139.39 | 12.40% | 2.66 | $17.29 | .91% | .46 | $1.27 |
| MA | 982 | $743.96 | 3.58% | .99 | $26.64 | 1.63% | .40 | $12.12 |
| MD | 840 | $337.22 | 20.13% | 2.86 | $67.88 | .64% | .36 | $2.16 |
| ME | 600 | $103.37 | 14.20% | 3.00 | $14.68 | .29% | .14 | $.30 |
| MI | 1,170 | $976.23 | 15.16% | 2.14 | $148.03 | 1.71% | .33 | $16.67 |
| MN | 960 | $357.65 | 13.30% | 2.19 | $47.58 | .46% | .25 | $1.66 |
| MO | 960 | $254.36 | 5.37% | 1.35 | $13.66 | .57% | .31 | $1.45 |
| MS | 720 | $128.75 | 10.59% | 2.30 | $13.64 | .43% | .20 | $.56 |
| MT | 441 | $60.41 | 13.65% | 3.26 | $8.25 | .85% | .36 | $.51 |
| NC | 941 | $390.09 | 11.88% | 2.21 | $46.36 | .46% | .28 | $1.80 |
| ND | 437 | $29.13 | 1.91% | 1.55 | $.56 | .19% | .17 | $.05 |
| NE | 606 | $46.15 | 7.48% | 2.17 | $3.45 | .60% | .46 | $.28 |
| NH | 418 | $33.03 | 5.79% | 2.13 | $1.91 | .78% | .41 | $.26 |
| NJ | 1,188 | $1,141.97 | 6.75% | 1.28 | $77.05 | 1.92% | .49 | $21.96 |
| NM | 447 | $72.90 | 5.60% | 2.15 | $4.09 | .43% | .28 | $.31 |
| NV | 570 | $129.98 | 12.54% | 2.79 | $16.30 | .52% | .25 | $.68 |
| NY | 1,332 | $1,949.98 | 4.62% | 1.08 | $90.17 | 1.88% | .37 | $36.63 |
| OH | 1,205 | $703.57 | 20.51% | 2.43 | $144.30 | .84% | .21 | $5.89 |
| OK | 432 | $103.43 | 3.58% | 1.51 | $3.71 | .29% | .23 | $.30 |
| OR | 792 | $356.57 | 11.29% | 2.37 | $40.27 | .98% | .39 | $3.50 |
| PA | 1,200 | $1,598.54 | 3.95% | .99 | $63.20 | .84% | .35 | $13.43 |
| PR | 573 | $209.55 | 9.48% | 2.41 | $19.88 | 1.28% | .55 | $2.68 |
| RI | 605 | $176.31 | 4.07% | 1.43 | $7.18 | .73% | .38 | $1.28 |
| SC | 728 | $193.77 | 8.65% | 2.00 | $16.75 | .41% | .35 | $.80 |
| SD | 480 | $15.57 | 8.04% | 2.40 | $1.25 | .47% | .39 | $.07 |
| TN | 960 | $316.81 | 3.08% | 1.10 | $9.77 | .47% | .27 | $1.48 |
| TX | 551 | $895.48 | 7.83% | 2.31 | $70.08 | .89% | .58 | $7.96 |
| UT | 506 | $67.01 | 10.64% | 2.74 | $7.13 | .78% | .53 | $.52 |
| VA | 694 | $185.49 | 15.32% | 2.80 | $28.41 | .53% | .30 | $.99 |
| VT | 435 | $46.96 | 7.19% | 2.41 | $3.38 | .57% | .28 | $.27 |
| WA | 924 | $741.36 | 6.62% | 1.68 | $49.07 | .46% | .24 | $3.45 |
| WI | 960 | $481.48 | 8.60% | 1.92 | $41.39 | 1.01% | .45 | $4.84 |
| WV | 512 | $142.41 | 3.20% | 1.60 | $4.56 | .54% | .35 | $.77 |
| WY | 480 | $30.20 | 11.06% | 3.20 | $3.34 | .41% | .27 | $.12 |
| US | 39,057 | $20,670.71 | 8.04% | .33 | $1,661.67 | .96% | .08 | $197.92 |
* In Millions of dollars
Prepared by: U.S. Dept. of Labor Unemployment Insurance Service Division of Performance Review