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Measure 3293

How many post-release participants exited the co-occurring program and were employed during the reporting period?

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Tier 1: Collect todayTier 3: Needs a partner

A count of services or people, held in the organization’s own records. The outcome sits in a record another agency holds. You hold the participant list and count it.

You count your own participants; the state wage record confirms the outcome.

Partner routes for wages and employment
  • CA: employment and quarterly earnings Held by Employment Development Department, UI wage records.
    Rule
    State-law authority or participant authorization; EDD offers DE 5600 authorization and a DSA process. Federal private-agent disclosure is permitted under 20 CFR 603.5(d), with safeguards and agreement requirements in 20 CFR 603.9 and 603.10.
    Lag
    EDD says wage abstracts are usually five months behind; a standard abstract covers up to five quarters.
    Cost
    Posted schedule: $1,500 administrative fee; $36 per quarter per SAFE account; $0.00121 per SSN per product; custom work additional. The schedule is labeled effective January 2023.
    Who may request
    Authorized third parties, including a nonprofit with sufficient authorization or statutory authority; not nonprofits automatically.
  • WA: employment and quarterly earnings Held by Employment Security Department.
    Rule
    20 CFR 603.5(d)-(f): informed-consent, public-official, or authorized contractor/agent route, as applicable; ESD eligibility and security review and contract.
    Lag
    State-specific event-to-delivery lag NR. Quarterly records; do not treat application acknowledgment as data availability.
    Cost
    Fixed tariff NR; federal 20 CFR 603.8 generally requires recovery of disclosure costs.
    Who may request
    Published categories include public officials, WorkSource partners, government-hired researchers, and private organizations or individuals using an informed-consent release.
  • National: SCSEP post-exit employment and earnings Held by State wage agencies; Kansas Department of Commerce and DOL through CRIS/SWIS.
    Rule
    SCSEP performance measures, 20 CFR 641.700-.710. CRIS matches national-program participant records against interstate wage data and returns aggregate employment outcomes through ETA.
    Lag
    CRIS-specific delivery lag NR. Measures concern employment in the second and fourth quarters after exit and second-quarter earnings; the observation period itself must elapse.
    Cost
    Per-request charge NR.
    Who may request
    Participating national-program grantees, including qualifying nonprofit SCSEP grantees; not arbitrary nonprofits.
Caveats
  • WIOA wage matching is a state obligation, not a subrecipient right. WIOA wage matching is a state performance obligation, not a blanket right for every subrecipient to receive raw wages. Under 20 CFR 677.175, states use quarterly wage records and facilitate matching consistent with law. DOL's reporting guidance anticipates roughly one to two quarters of wage-data availability delay: fourth-quarter-after-exit outcomes therefore require substantially more than a year from exit. UI records also omit some employment, including self-employment; supplemental evidence may be necessary. Source
Agreement templates

Participants are considered to have maintained employment if a job is lost, and a new job is found within 30 days. The “Don’t Know” category indicates the number of individuals whose employment status is unknown, not the number of individuals who were unemployed.

Target
No target rule stated
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Grantee precedent for this measure

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