Alignment Algorithm

An alignment algorithm is implemented for income and resource evidence for Cash Assistance, Food Assistance, Medical Assistance, and CHIP as follows:

Start Date:

• If the start date of the evidence is before or equal to the start date of the household member, the evidence is aligned to the household member start date.

• If the start date of the evidence is before the product delivery activation date, the start of the evidence is not aligned.

• If the start date of the evidence is after the household member start date AND after the product delivery activation date, the evidence is aligned to the start of the next month unless the evidence is head of household and the previous head of household's date of death is in the same month.

• If a new household member is added, the member is effective immediately.

End Date:

• If the end date of the evidence is in the middle of a month, the evidence is generally aligned to the end of the current month.

• If the household member date of death is specified then process the end of all evidence records from the person's date of death.