1. A method for performing real-time receiver processing in a multiple access system that has error correction coding enabled, the method comprising: receiving a block of signal data including an intended signal and one or more interfering signals for other users of the system; generating reliability information using a multiuser interference mitigation algorithm, the reliability information including confidence values for each user represented during the block; comparing current confidence values for a user with previous confidence values for that user; and in response to the comparison indicating a change in confidence values for the user does not exceed a threshold, using previously decoded confidence values and corresponding bit estimates for that user, thereby reducing error correction coding complexity.