AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2010 Awards: Digital Government: Government to Citizen (G to C)
RECIPIENT:
California - C-IV: Providing Californians Accurate and Efficient Access to Health and Social Service Benefits
The process of administering California’s numerous statewide welfare programs was slow, time-consuming and fraught with the potential for errors and lost cases. To address these issues and others, the California Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (SAWS) Consortium IV developed the C-IV System. Originally created for a four-county consortium, the C-IV System now streamlines the process of determining eligibility for more than 2 million state welfare recipients in 39 counties. It is an excellent example of how leading-edge technology can help serve citizens more effectively and efficiently.
C-IV is the first fully implemented, integrated web-based eligibility and welfare-to-work system in the country to use technology based on flexible, open standards. The project also received $3 million in grants from the Food and Nutrition Service and the California Medical Services Program to support a customer self-service application for Food Stamps, TANF and Medicaid called C4Yourself®.
The C-IV system enhances and improves how California’s welfare caseworkers perform their duties, and extends the benefits of C-IV through the internet with C4Yourself, ultimately improving how citizens receive benefits. C-IV has brought about the following efficiencies:
- Streamlining work for caseworkers.
- Speeding through thousands of eligibility criteria with an average response time of less than four seconds.
- Applying current state and federal rules and regulations to determine eligibility and calculate benefits clearly and consistently.
- Processing more than 5 million transactions per day with an average response time of less than two seconds.
- Processing accurate benefits of more than $250 million per month.
- Enabling automation of a tax intercept functionality which has resulted in collection of an additional $10 million to date from previously uncollected overpayments.
- Enabling the real-time sharing of information among caseworkers and administrators.
- Providing automated updates from sources such as child support and child welfare systems.
- Adjusting payments and costs to reflect Cost of Living Adjustments and policy changes.
- Providing online California residents an internet-based portal to apply for and recertify eligibility for Food Stamps, TANF and Medicaid.
John Boule, C-IV Project Director
FINALISTS:
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Health Connector - MAHealthconnector.org
Michigan
Michigan Helping Hand Portal
OTHER NOMINATIONS:
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Arkansas
Arkansas Electronic Game Check Suite
Arizona
State of Arizona - AZRecovery Website
Colorado
Unemployment Insurance Internet Self Service MyUI Claimant
Maine
Maine.gov Media Gallery
North Carolina
North Carolina Central Issuance
Nebraska
Nebraska Judicial Branch
Internet Payment System
New York
myBenefits
Ohio
www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov website
Oklahoma
Red Dirt Ready Emergency Preparedness Portal
Pennsylvania
Moving Forward to Look Back: Google Earth, GigaPan and the Civil War
Utah
Utah's Identity Theft Reporting Information System (IRIS)
