The purpose of this guide is twofold:
To achieve this purpose, the guide provides detailed examples of eligibility and entitlement results, descriptions of the processing that returns these results, and instructions on how to use this processing.
The guide promotes a "designing in stages" approach, focusing first on returning the basic eligibility and entitlement results (i.e. eligible periods and entitlement amounts), and then on designing solutions that return more complex eligibility and entitlement results (e.g. returning eligibility and entitlement results with detailed explanations of how those results were derived).