Unemployment Insurance Performance Management

Benefit Accuracy Measurement (BAM)
(Formerly Benefits Quality Control - BQC)

• BAM Questions and Answers



• CY 2006
• BAM Data Summary



• Integrity Rates*
• Integrity Rates - CY 2006 - all states.xls
• CY 2005-CY2006 Integrity Rate changes.xls



• Integrity Rates - Cause / Responsibility*
• Annual Overpayment by cause - all states.xls
• Operational Overpayment by cause - all states.xls
• Fraud Overpayment by cause - all states.xls
• Agency Responsible Overpayment by cause - all states.xls
• Integrity Rates by Responsibility - all states.xls
• Annual Report Rate Cause and Responsibility - US Total.xls



• Integrity Rates - Prior Action / Point of Detection*
• Prior agency action for all integrity rates
• Prior Employer Action for all integrity rates - all states.xls
• Point of Detection - all states.xls
• Operational Overpaid By Point of Detection and Cause.xls



• Key Week Action Rates*
• Key week action overpayments.xls



• Underpayments and Denied Claim Accuracy*
• Base Period Wages Report by State - CY 2006.xls
• Denied Claims Accuracy Rates -- CY 2006.xls
• Improper Denials by Type of Error -- CY 2006.xls
• Responsibility for Improper Denials -- CY 2006.xls
• Prior Agency Action for Improper Denials -- CY 2006.xls
• Denied Claims Separation Error Rates by State
• Denied Claims Nonseparation Error Rates by State



• BAM Methodology
• BAM Integrity Rate Definitions and Methodology
• BAM State Contacts
• ET 395 Handbook 4th Edition BAM State Operations Guidance
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations - Quality Control in the Federal State Unemployment Insurance System



• Other References
• Comparison of State Unemployment Laws
• Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws
• ET 301 Handbook 5th ed - nonmonetary determination guide sheets



• Performance Measures which use the BAM Operational Rate
• GPRA Measure
• Core Measure
• Calculation of the Core Measure



• CY 2005
• CY 2004
• CY 2003
• CY 2002
• CY 2001
• CY 2000
• CY 1999
• CY 1998 Full Report PDF | HTML
• CY 1998
• CY 1997
• CY 1996
• CY 1994 (BQC)
• CY 1993 (BQC)
• Denied Claims Accuracy Pilot Project (May 1999) PDF | HTML

(Table 1 PDF | HTML,
 Table 2 PDF | HTML)

*The Excel spreadsheets may have several pages of data.