There was an error on the online application for the Low-Income Tax Freeze which made it seem like it required previous year income, but I confirmed with the city that it should be current year income. For the Senior Citizen Tax Freeze multiple years could be the income year used to calculate eligibility, from 2018 to 2025.
The 2024 deadlines have passed to apply for both SCTF and LOOP, but the 2025 applications are now available, meaning the SCTF could require 2025 income while the new 2025 LOOP application would require previous year income, meaning current 2024 income.
Given all this variability we need a way to screen for these benefits that simplify the screening process as well as that do not require lots of updates for the last 2 mos of the year for the MVP release, and are easy to update in 2025. Ideas include:
For 2024:
duplicate the previous year annual primary/spouse income decision and make it a current year monthly primary/spouse income decision. Update the refined inputs to list a monthly amount instead of annual (ie annual limits/12). Use this for LITF and SCTF. For SCTF, explain in the eligibility message that you might be able to back date eligibility to 2018 or that eligibility may not start until 2025.
Use the current monthly income decision for phlLoop, but in the inputsPhlLoopRefined decision list monthly phlLoop limits (i.e. annual limit/12)
For January 2025:
continue to use the new currently monthly income for primary/spouse decision for SCTF and LITF
Switch phlLoop to use the previous annual income decision service, to calculate 2024 income.
There was an error on the online application for the Low-Income Tax Freeze which made it seem like it required previous year income, but I confirmed with the city that it should be current year income. For the Senior Citizen Tax Freeze multiple years could be the income year used to calculate eligibility, from 2018 to 2025.
The 2024 deadlines have passed to apply for both SCTF and LOOP, but the 2025 applications are now available, meaning the SCTF could require 2025 income while the new 2025 LOOP application would require previous year income, meaning current 2024 income.
Given all this variability we need a way to screen for these benefits that simplify the screening process as well as that do not require lots of updates for the last 2 mos of the year for the MVP release, and are easy to update in 2025. Ideas include:
For 2024:
For January 2025:
fyi @prestoncabe