Press Releases
Alaska DOL deploys both Barts and Aware
December 22, 2006
Alaska's Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD) has deployed the latest versions of Barts and Aware. On Point Technology worked closely with Pat Shier, Employment Security Tax Director, and his staff to ensure the products met the needs of their Benefit Payment Control (BPC) unit. As a result of this project effort, Alaska is upgrading from the original version of Barts deployed in the 1990s to version 3.0 of Barts. "This version of Barts includes innovative ideas and best practices generated from the combined experiences of our many customers," stated Michael Lorsbach, President of On Point Technology.
Adjudication of non-earnings issues, processing of an unlimited number of issues per case, and the ability to add external documents such as interview questionnaires to the digital "case file" are a few of the most desired functional enhancements in Barts 3.0.
In addition, DOLWD is expanding its pursuit of organized fraud and SUTA dumping by utilizing On Point Technology's Aware software package. BPC staff received extensive training on FraudIT's (Fraud Investigative Tool) one-click audits in addition to the ad hoc query tool, Workforce Reporter. DOLWD staff now have the ability to independently investigate fraud scenarios from their desktops.