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Helps San Mateo County residents understand what assistance programs they may be eligible for
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Eligibility requirement based upon income seems wrong as it is #11

Closed jeffslofish closed 7 years ago

jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

The current formula is

 maxIncomeBasedOnNumPeople = 12060 * ((resultData.numFamilyMembers - 1) * 4180) * 1.85;

which produces huge numbers. What should the formula be?

jridener commented 7 years ago

Good question. I updated the eligibility_requirements file last week with eligibility thresholds for all 4 eligibility levels (WIC has 2). Does that help?

One difference might be switching from annual to monthly income. GetCalFresh asks about previous month's income since income can be highly variable from month to month for those receiving food assistance.

@chaostheory: am I missing something with regard to eligibility thresholds in the eligibility requirements?

chaostheory commented 7 years ago

Hey John, The formula represents what you listed in the requirements. However, (hey Jeff) it is wrong. $12060 is the base income for poverty which adds $4180 for every person you add to the family. This is the correct formula for yearly calculation (feel free to correct me):

maxYearlyIncomeBasedOnNumPeople = 12060 + ((resultData.numFamilyMembers - 1) * 4180) * 1.85;

The poverty line is without the 1.85 multiplier, but this aid program uses the 1.85 multiplier.

For monthly you probably just need to divide by 12.

chaostheory commented 7 years ago

Before I forget, John do you want to increase Jeff's rights on this repo? I trust his submissions.

jridener commented 7 years ago

Done! (I think. Let me know if not).

jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

Can you take a look at the current state of the app and give some direction on what needs to be added or modified? I don't want to go too far in a direction that isn't desired.

jridener commented 7 years ago

Yes, definitely! I'm having issues getting the app started. I can't get npm to start. It's probably due to the fact I have no idea what I'm doing and lucked out earlier. Any help is much appreciated! Maybe a list of steps to getting things started to review the app? Super basic here ... Thanks!

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jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

I added a short getting started guide to the README file. Let me know if you need more than that.

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jridener commented 7 years ago

@jeffslofish Thanks for the getting started stuff in the README file. My node/npm on Windows wasn't working correctly. I was able to get it up and running on Mac OS.

I'd like to show this to the customer at the SMC Human Services Agency for feedback too.

In the meantime, should I create new issues for questions?

jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

I made a slack channel for us to communicate. I figured it is best to use github mainly for actual issues with the code. You should have received an invite.

jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

Let me know if that doesn't work for you. Thanks!

jridener commented 7 years ago

I did receive the invite, thanks! We also set up a Slack channel for this on the OpenSMC Slack as well. Would you be interested in joining the OpenSMC Slack? https://opensmc.slack.com/ The channel is getconnectedsmc. Let me know if you'd rather not join the OpenSMC slack.

jeffslofish commented 7 years ago

Sure, can you send me an invite for it?