Apparatus and methods for providing a national portal for electronic services

Abstract

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 .- 27 . (canceled) 
   
   
       28 . A method for processing an employee garnishment for an employer at a national portal, comprising:
 receiving employee garnishment information of an employee from a third party at the national portal;   receiving salary information of the employee from the employer at the national portal; and   processing the garnishment against a salary of the employee at the national portal.   
   
   
       29 . The method of  claim 28 , wherein the third party comprises at least one of a state, an employee, and a court. 
   
   
       30 . The method of  claim 28 , wherein the garnishment comprises one of a debt and a judicial decree. 
   
   
       31 . The method of  claim 28 , wherein the garnishment is processed electronically. 
   
   
       32 . The method of  claim 28 , wherein the garnishment is processed by non-electronic means. 
   
   
       33 .- 69 . (canceled) 
   
   
       70 . A system for processing an employee garnishment for an employer at a national portal, comprising:
 a garnishment receive component for receiving employee garnishment information of an employee from a third party at the national portal;   a salary receive component for receiving salary information of the employee from the employer at the national portal; and   a processor for processing the garnishment against a salary of the employee at the national portal.   
   
   
       71 . The system of  claim 70 , wherein the third party comprises at least one of a state, an employee, and a court. 
   
   
       72 . The system of  claim 70 , wherein the garnishment comprises one of a debt and a judicial decree. 
   
   
       73 .- 86 . (canceled) 
   
   
       87 . A system for processing an employee garnishment for an employer at a national portal, comprising:
 means for receiving employee garnishment information of an employee from a third party at the national portal;   means for receiving salary information of the employee from the employer at the national portal; and   means for processing the garnishment against a salary of the employee at the national portal.   
   
   
       88 .- 93 . (canceled) 
   
   
       94 . A computer program product for processing an employee garnishment for an employer at a national portal, the computer program product comprising the following computer-readable program code for effecting actions in a computing platform:
 program code for receiving employee garnishment information of an employee from a third party at the national portal;   program code for receiving salary information of the employee from the employer at the national portal; and   program code for processing the garnishment against a salary of the employee at the national portal.   
   
   
       95 . (canceled) 
   
   
       96 . A computer program product for providing electronic services at a national portal for an employer, the computer program product comprising the following computer-readable program code for effecting actions in a computing platform:
 program code for receiving employee information from the employer at the national portal;   program code for transferring the employee information from the national portal to a third party;   program code for receiving an instruction at the national portal from the third party based upon the employee information;   program code for transferring the instruction from the national portal to the employer;   program code for receiving payment information from the employer at the national portal based on the instruction;   program code for transmitting the payment information from the national portal to the third party; and   program code for processing a payment at the national portal from the employer to the third party.