EDD to Use iCapture™ for California Planned Family Leave (PFL)

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.--January 01, 2004

In mid-2003, the California legislature signed a new Bill associated with the nations first Planned Family Leave initiative. Under this program, employees within the State would be eligible to take a fixed amount of time off work to take care of new children, to bond with adopted children and to take care of elderly parents or family members during selected circumstances. Included within this Bill was the requirement that the California Employment Development Department (EDD) establish the processes and systems that would enable the State to collect a nominal fee from employers on a continuing basis to cover the costs associated with this new program.

EDD is one of the largest users of iCapture, with a solution installed in 1999 that processes over 26,000,000 tax forms on an annual basis. This system has been highly successful and EDD has publicly reported that there are significant annual operational savings associated with its continued operation. Given the new responsibility to process PFL related forms and documents, EDD awarded a contract to Impression Technology to expand and enhance the existing system to meet the new PFL requirements and objectives. The contract was awarded in January, 2004.

PFL design criteria included the addition of approximately 400,000 new documents annually to the iCapture processing workload. Following an on-site analysis and evaluation, Impression and EDD determined that the added volume would not have an adverse impact on the performance of the existing iCapture infrastructure and that the project could be accomplished with minimal additions for workstations, the integration of several additional iCapture proven applications and the customization associated with the introduction of new forms, logic and the business rules associated with PFL eligibility and payments. This work was performed by Impression Technology and the iCapture portion of the new EDD PFL system successfully passed all Acceptance Testing in May, 2004 and Impression continues to provide on-going maintenance and support.

For additional information on this project, please contact Bruce Lechner, Vice President, at 925.280.0010, ext. 20.