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Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Labor & Industry, in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET), announced a new cross-match system to identify and stop benefit payments to unemployment compensation claimants incarcerated in the state’s county prisons.

Estimates by the department indicate annual savings of nearly $12 million to the UC trust fund through a real-time benefits payment stop that occurs when UC claimants are incarcerated in 51 of the 63 counties that operate prisons. This estimate is based on the average size and number of weeks of payments.

“For many years, individuals have abused the UC trust fund by unlawfully collecting benefits while incarcerated,” Labor & Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway said. “The capability to cross-match incarcerated individuals against UC claimants allows the department to stop payments rather than go to the added expense of ferreting out and trying to recoup erroneous payments made.”

JNET is a secure portal used by criminal justice and public safety professionals to access data from local, state and federal agencies. When a new inmate enters a county prison that participates in JNET, the individual’s information is automatically compared against the UC rolls maintained by Labor & Industry. After L&I receives and verifies the report, the individual is immediately removed from active UC benefit status, saving the UC trust fund and the commonwealth’s businesses and employees millions of dollars.

DTC has provided support and leadership to JNET since 2001 as a prime contractor performing services to include; project management, policy development, architecture/engineering, application development /support, communications, quality assurance, training, and public relations.

The DTC team has been central to JNET’s successful evolution to a service-oriented architecture and implementation of the National

Information Exchange Model (NIEM) message development process. The resultant JNET messaging infrastructure allows for the secure exchange of information between multiple agency systems and users with a comparatively trivial investment of time, money and resources.

“This is just one example of how we are using technology to make government programs more effective and efficient,” said Secretary of Administration Kelly Powell Logan. “We were able to bring this service online for L&I with minimal cost and effort – an investment that will produce millions of dollars in savings for years to come.”

“DTC is proud to have played such an integral role in the advancement of information exchange in the commonwealth and the nation.” says DTC Chief Executive Officer O. Tyrone Barnett. “The success of this case emphasizes the very real opportunity to accelerate information sharing initiatives across multiple communities of practice, such as government administration, health and human services and public safety.”

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DTC’s JNET Project Has Received 9 National, International and State Awards Since 2005!

Previous Service Awards / Accolades

During DTC’s tenure at JNET, we delivered several successful business solutions, which received the following awards:

• In March 2005, JNET received a “Best Application of Technology” award from the Technology Council of Central PA for its use and implementation of technology with a focus on the ability to provide criminal justice practitioners with 24x7 access to criminal justice and public safety information.

• In 2006, JNET received the Recognition award from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) for their Criminal Justice Information Sharing Program, and the Global XML 3.0 Document Creation Process.

• In June 2008, JNET’s Consolidated Warrant Search Application received an award in the category of Digital Government: Government to Government at the Best of Pennsylvania Technology Awards.

• In June 2008, JNET was awarded Laureate status by International Data Group’s (IDG’s) Computerworld Honors Program for utilizing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to successfully deploy a Federated Warrant Search application.

• In October 2008, JNET’s Federated Warrant Search application won NASCIO’s “Data, Information and Knowledge Management” category award.

• In June 2011, JNET was awarded Laureate status by International Data Group’s (IDG’s) Computerworld Honors Program for its federated address search application, which allows users to search addresses housed in different systems via a single inquiry.

• In June 2012, JNET has earned a 21st Century Achievement Award from IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program for integrating and supporting facial recognition technology in the JNET Portal to help enforcement identify criminal suspects and witnesses.

• In March 2013, DTC was nominated by the PA Technology Council for developing and implementing the automated Unemployment Compensation Match at JNET. The Unemployment Compensation Match saves approximately $12 Million annually in disbursements of Unemployment Compensation funds to incarcerated Pennsylvanians.

• In early 2013, Computerworld nominated JNET as a Laureate in the Collaboration category of the 2013 Computerworld Honor Program for its Unemployment Compensation Match solution.