Apparatus and methods for providing a national portal for electronic services
View Patent ↗Apparatus and methods for providing a single location where an entity may conduct electronic services over a national portal. The entity includes an employer, a state, an employee, or any other entity. The electronic services include employee obligations, employee garnishments, new hire reporting, communications, call center, exception handling, regulation database, other databases, human resources, search engine, payments, disbursements, and future uses. Future uses includes additional users (e.g., additional entities) or additional uses (e.g., additional services).
1. A computer-implemented method for providing electronic services to employers via a national portal in communication with an employer, a reporting agency, and a state, comprising:
receiving information regarding a newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal;
automatically submitting the information regarding the newly-hired employee by the national portal to the reporting agency based on the newly-hired employee;
receiving an employee financial obligation corresponding to the newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal for processing;
processing, using a computer processor, the financial obligation at the national portal;
electronically communicating with the state regarding the financial obligation; and
collecting the financial obligation at the national portal for the employer.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the financial obligation includes processing financial information as a debit transaction.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the financial obligation includes processing financial information as a credit transaction.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein processing the financial obligation includes processing financial information as either a debit or credit transaction.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the financial obligation includes an electronic payment.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising disbursing the financial obligation to a third party.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the employee financial obligation comprises a child support payment and the third party comprises a custodial parent.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein disbursing comprises disbursing an electronic disbursement.
9. A system for providing electronic services to employers via a national portal in communication with an employer, a reporting agency, and a state, comprising:
a receiving component for receiving information regarding a newly-hired employee and an employee financial obligation corresponding to the newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal for processing;
a processor for automatically submitting the information regarding the newly-hired employee by the national portal to the reporting agency based on the newly-hired employee and for processing the financial obligation;
a communication component for electronically communicating with the state regarding the financial obligation; and
a collection component for collecting the financial obligation at the national portal for the employer.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor processes financial information as a debit transaction.
11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor processes financial information as a credit transaction.
12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor processes financial information as either a debit or credit transaction.
13. The system of claim 9 , wherein the financial obligation includes an electronic payment.
14. The system of claim 9 , further comprising a disbursement component for disbursing the financial obligation to a third party.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the employee financial obligation comprises a child support payment and the third party comprises a custodial parent.
16. The system of claim 14 , wherein the disbursement component disburses an electronic disbursement.
17. A system for providing electronic services to employers via a national portal in communication with an employer, a reporting agency, and a state, comprising:
means for receiving information regarding a newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal;
means for automatically submitting the information regarding the newly-hired employee by the national portal to the reporting agency based on the newly-hired employee;
means for receiving an employee financial obligation corresponding to the newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal for processing;
means for processing the financial obligation at the national portal;
means for electronically communicating with the state regarding the financial obligation; and
means for collecting the financial obligation at the national portal for the employer.
18. A computer program product for providing electronic services to employers via a national portal in communication with an employer, a reporting agency, and a state, the computer program product comprising the following computer-readable program code for effecting actions in a computing platform:
program code for receiving information regarding a newly-hired employee and an employee financial obligation corresponding to the newly-hired employee from the employer at the national portal for processing;
program code for automatically submitting the information regarding the newly-hired employee by the national portal to the reporting agency based on the newly-hired employee and for processing the financial obligation;
program code for electronically communicating with the state regarding the financial obligation; and
program code for collecting the financial obligation at the national portal for the employer.