Social Security DMF Service
Introduction
Smith Group reinsurance clients have access to the Social Security Death Master File (DMF) resource. The links at the left provide a simple demonstration of this service.
- The first link allows you to enter Social Security numbers manually (up to 200) to view an example of results output.
- The second link provides results of a cross-check between your company's reinsured claims and the Social Security DMF, again, as a demonstration of how this service works.
See below for information on how your company can cross-check a more comprehensive set of claims data.
The Social Security DMF service allows Smith Group clients to integrate information from the SS Death Master File (DMF) into their existing applications. This integration can be done entirely behind the scenes; end users do not have to learn a new application. Furthermore, client application installation is not required for this service, and the client does not need to host any large databases. All of the processing occurs at Smith Group, and the client is free to access this service at their convenience once the initial link is created.
Although this Web Service has been streamlined to allow for easy integration with a client’s existing application, if the client desires, Smith Group is happy to develop a front-end application to access this service, either on a Windows or a Web platform.
Service Technical Description
Web Services technology allows a client application to utilize a component,
even if that component was written by a completely unrelated entity.
The component is accessed over the Internet, and this link is
accomplished through a few lines of programming in the client
application. Once the link is established, the client application
can access the component whenever it needs to, with no human intervention
on either side. The client application developer and the component
developer can access the Web Service completely independent of
one another.
The Social Security DMF Service offers a way for a client application to pass-in a list of Social Security numbers, and get back that same list but with information appended indicating whether a match was found in the DMF. This information is useful to our clients for termination studies, as well as to identify those claimants who have died but whose estates have not yet notified the disability carrier. The result is provided in XML format, so that the client can make use of it in the widest variety of applications.
Because Smith Group wishes to offer this service only to its reinsurance clients, we have implemented some light security to access this service. Again, security information can be transmitted very simply in the few lines of programming used to establish the link to the Web Service.
More Information
Because of the wealth of programming tools that our clients use, it would be difficult to provide sufficient examples in this document of how a link to the SS DMF Web Service can be made. If you wish to learn more about how you can make use of this latest Smith Group client service offering, please email Alan Peabody, or call him at 207-879-5680.
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