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Helping People with Low Incomes Navigate Benefit Cliffs: Lessons Learned Deploying a Marginal Tax Rate Calculator

Helping People with Low Incomes Navigate Benefit Cliffs: Lessons Learned Deploying a Marginal Tax Rate Calculator
2023
Office of Human Services Policy, Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Author(s): 
Nina Chien, Seth Hartig, and Anne Chamberlain
Helping People with Low Incomes Navigate Benefit Cliffs: Lessons Learned Deploying a Marginal Tax Rate Calculator
Source Sector(s)
Government Agency
Benefits Program
CCDF: Child Care and Development Fund
UI: Unemployment Insurance
SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Medicaid/CHIP
Housing
TANF: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
CTC: Child Tax Credit
EITC: Earned Income Tax Credit
Level of Government
Federal/National
State/Provincial
Location
United States
Format
Report

This report details findings and lessons from a project to develop a calculator to help people anticipate how a change in earnings from employment would affect their net income and information on their estimated effective marginal tax rate.