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PolicyEngine's free web app for computing the impact of public policy.
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Add disability income tab in UI to trigger logic for SSI/SSDI/etc. #452

Open nmrodelo opened 1 year ago

nmrodelo commented 1 year ago

Per a discussion I had with someone testing the app, it would be valuable to have disability income for SSI/SSDI included in the tabs for calculating household income. This would allow users to more easily verify those benefits are being computed in the calculation and affecting other variables (SSDI, for instance, has huge impacts on SNAP), and perhaps we could even use this as a way to benchmark how far we are off from the reality of what people are receiving and flag issues with our calcs.

MaxGhenis commented 1 year ago

Thanks Nick, I moved this to the app repo. I think this would be better handled in a more general way, e.g. the tile drill-down layout we have for parameters instead of requiring searching (at least as a start) but good to know this use case.

nikhilwoodruff commented 1 year ago

Yeah- the current setup of the app only lets people enter in non-formula variables. So to fix this we'd need to reassess that