United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2007-06-14 monographic deposited born digital 50 p. GA 1.13:GAO-07-680 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680 P0b002ee1803a099b f:d07680 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680 GAO-07-680 Claims Data collection Employment Employment assistance programs Evaluation methods Federal/state relations Labor statistics Program evaluation Reemployment State-administered programs Statistical data Statistical methods Unemployment compensation programs Unemployment insurance Unemployment rates Program implementation Unemployment Insurance Program Other Written Product A70869 Changes to the U.S. economy have led to longer-term unemployment. Many unemployed workers receive Unemployment Insurance (UI), which provided about $30 billion in benefits in 2006. In 1993, Congress established requirements--now known as the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) initiative--for state UI agencies to identify claimants who are most likely to exhaust their benefits, and then refer such claimants to reemployment services. To assess the implementation and effect of the initiative, GAO examined (1) how states identify claimants who are most likely to exhaust benefits, (2) to what extent states provide reemployment services as recommended by the Department of Labor (Labor), and (3) what is known about the effectiveness of the initiative in accelerating reemployment. To answer these questions, we used a combination of national data; review of seven states, including visits to local service providers in four states; and existing studies and interviews with Labor and subject matter experts. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680.pdf GAO-07-680 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-07-680 Other Written Product GAO-07-680; Unemployment Insurance: More Guidance and Evaluation of Worker-Profiling Initiative Could Help Improve State Efforts; Claims Data collection Employment Employment assistance programs Evaluation methods Federal/state relations Labor statistics Program evaluation Reemployment State-administered programs Statistical data Statistical methods Unemployment compensation programs Unemployment insurance Unemployment rates Program implementation Unemployment Insurance Program Public Law 103-152