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SuffolkLITLab / docassemble-MAPovertyScale

Contains most recent poverty scale in poverty.yml
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Calculated income is wrong for 2022 #5

Closed BryceStevenWilley closed 2 years ago

BryceStevenWilley commented 2 years ago

According to https://www.masslegalservices.org/content/federal-poverty-guidelines-2022, 125% of the poverty level for a family of 3 is $28,788. However, this package will calculate the value to be $34,687.50, which is the value for a family with one additional person.

Household size: 3 household_income_limit: 34687.5 poverty_base: 13590 poverty_increment: 4720 poverty_level_update: "2022" poverty_multiplier: 1.25

BryceStevenWilley commented 2 years ago

From https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines/prior-hhs-poverty-guidelines-federal-register-references, it looks like the issue isn't in the values, but how we suggest interviews use them. The suggested use in the README should change to: 

  additional_income_allowed = max(household_size - 1, 0) * poverty_increment
  household_income_limit = (poverty_base + additional_income_allowed) * poverty_multiplier

  household_income_qualifies = int((household_income_limit)/12) >=  int(household_monthly_income)

And should change in ALAffidavitOfIndigency.