Information About the Household

The Household Information section captures a lot of the same non-financial information about other members of an individual's household, and other important information which may affect the eligibility and entitlement of the household, for example, household members' relationships to the applicant and tax relationships.

Similar to the primary applicant details, this information for other members is gathered over two pages. The first page gathers basic demographic and contact information. Questions on the first page determine whether the household member is an applicant or not. Based on this information, the next page gathers all the information required of an applicant, or the subset of information required of non-applicants.

Each time a household member is added, the current picture of the household being built up is displayed, and asks whether there are more people to be added or not. As well as listing the people already added, it includes a reminder of what other people should be included, so that the user is presented with all the information they need to decide whether more people should be added or not. The aim is to ensure that the correct household is captured before moving on to capture household relationships, tax status and tax relationships for each individual in the household.

Questions are displayed dynamically, as in keeping with the rest of the application, for example the student question will not be asked of household members above age 21, as this is the age limit for individuals necessary for Medicaid household composition rules.