Barts

Are fraudulent claims eating away at your state unemployment insurance trust fund?

Every year, more than $3.5 billion is overpaid in unemployment insurance claims. Case loads increase as new, more sophisticated fraud schemes are uncovered. With Barts, you can capture, process and control overpaid unemployment insurance claims that are diminishing your state’s unemployment insurance trust fund.

Improving productivity in UI programs

The Benefit Audit, Reporting and Tracking System (Barts) is the only packaged product that helps agencies prevent, detect and process both fraudulent and non-fraudulent unemployment insurance overpayments. Barts performs several types of audits and automatically manages cases, which reduces paperwork and streamlines the adjudication process for agents, claimants and employers. It increases the overall efficiency, productivity and reliability of unemployment insurance programs.

Providing advanced solutions for state agencies

With more than a decade of proven success and eight state installations, Barts ensures greater effectiveness for your unemployment insurance program. Barts is fully configurable to meet individual state laws and policies, enabling states to dramatically increase their overpayment investigations with the same staff levels. Barts incorporates best practices across many state agencies, and also helps unemployment insurance administrators meet the new Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) goals.

Save millions with a fixed-cost solution

Barts’ fixed-cost solution saves state trust funds millions of dollars annually by systematically managing the detection and processing of unemployment insurance overpayments. The State of Washington identified $15.8 million from 25,000 cases with only seven investigators. Barts’ return on investment is stunning: costs are recovered in a matter of weeks through trust fund savings, and by helping protect the state trust fund balance, tax rate increases are kept to a minimum. As a strong deterrent against overpayments and fraud, Barts can fulfill the integrity requirements of your unemployment insurance system and send a message across the state that unemployment fraud is not tolerated.

Software solutions backed by personal support

Barts completely automates more than 50 percent of overpaid audit cases and is call center-ready, allowing staff to resolve an additional 35 percent of cases with just a short telephone call. Barts fully supports the remaining 15 percent of cases that require personal attention.

Everyone benefits from Barts

Barts makes full use of Web technology so employers, as well as staff and claimants, can access, respond and inquire over the Internet. Employers can even respond to quarterly crossmatch wage forms on the Web. Barts can automatically prorate wages, enabling employers to convert their pay period wages to fulfill their state’s weekly reporting requirements. It also allows data to flow through the system with no re-keying and greatly reduces form processing and handling.

Payroll Control Benefits

  • Improves overpayment collection rates
  • Provides actionable management reports
  • Automates state and national New Hire reporting process
  • Enables timely, proactive investigations, which eliminates case backlog
  • Automates stops, overpayments and adjudication data

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