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Locate

What Can You Do When You Have To Dig Deeper

ERICSA 2011Atlantic City, New Jersey

Cristol PorterFPLS State Technical Support Liaison

Northrop Grumman Information SystemsCristol.porter@ngc.com

Carla WestProgram ManagerYoungWilliams, PCcwest@ywcss.com

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Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS)

• Provides everything you need– Addresses– Income– Assets

• The FPLS is your one stop shop!

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Having Locate Issues?

• Are you relying solely on internal sources?• Have you tried the FPLS? Why Not?– Always improving – Finding new sources– Proactive matching with NDNH– National resource

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Need Addresses?

• National Directory of New Hires (NDNH)– New Hire (W-4)

– Quarterly Wage (QW)

– Unemployment Insurance (UI)

• Multistate Financial Institution Data Match (MSFIDM)

• Insurance Match (IM)

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Need Addresses?• External Locate Sources– Department of Defense (DoD)– Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)– Internal Revenue Service (IRS)– National Security Agency (NSA)– Social Security Administration (SSA)– Veteran’s Administration (VA)

• National Change of Address (NCOA)

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Need income?• NDNH– W-4 is fresh, reliable new hire data– QW includes amount and percentage of change– UI benefits for applicants and recipients

• External locate sources– SSA (SSD, SSI, prisoner)– VA (benefit)– DOD (military income and federal retirees)

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Need income?• SSA Title II Pending Claim File– Attach lump sum

• State Services Portal – Returns DoD entitlement details– Effective July 2011

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Need Assets?

• Multistate Financial Institution Data Match (MSFIDM)– Checking/savings account, IRA

• Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Match– Match with federal employees’ retirement plan– Returned quarterly

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Want to find other income?

• Federal Offset– Tax refunds– Administrative offset

• Insurance Match– Insurers and Workers’ Compensation

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Need help? – No problem!

• FCR Print Programs– Provide software/code that generate formatted

reports from response files – Select responses can be pre-formatted to a

report for local print or electronic distribution

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One last thought

If the FPLS doesn’t have what you need it could be that:– Person is not registered on the Federal Case

Registry (FCR) with a verified SSN– Person has a Family Violence Indicator (FVI)

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Have questions?

• Contact your FPLS State Technical Support Liaison athttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cse/newhire/contacts/fcrtscontacts.htm

Good Luck with yourlocation efforts!!!

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Location Basics

Skip Tracing is the ability to think through and analyze the circumstances of each situation individually in order to reach your goal

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Free Search Engines

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GOOGLE!!

By name By phone number By email address By home address Public Records search

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Good ResourcesUtilize location resources designed to search the

entire website, including social networking sites

www.wink.comwww.spokeo.com

www.pipi.com

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Social Networking

www.facebook.comwww.linkedin.comwww.myspace.comwww.twitter.comwww.youtube.com

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BE CREATIVE!

Blogs Craigslist Domain Searches Military locate sites Inmate searches

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WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS…..

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WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES?

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