Career Ladder Identifier and Financial Forecaster Suite

The tools in the CLIFF suite of tools model the interaction of public benefits, taxes, and tax credits with wage progressions and currently include three core tools, as well as the Employer Edition tool.

CLIFF Snapshot: Compares a client’s current financial situation to possible alternative scenarios. Counselors can help their clients better understand how an increase in wages, additional hours worked, and/or participation in public assistance programs may better position them for financial stability.

CLIFF Dashboard: Details the long-term financial implications of a new career. The Dashboard shows income and public assistance over a 20-year-plus horizon. The Dashboard also includes a self-sufficiency target which identifies the estimated level at which worker’s after-tax income will position them to cover their basic expenses.

CLIFF Planner: Helps clients when they’re ready to map out the details of their career move. With the Planner’s flexibility, counselors can work with their clients to build a customized education plan, career plan, and budget. The Planner produces a much more individualized financial portrait compared to the Dashboard.

Note: The Employer Edition is similar to Snapshot but is a simplified version that allows for employer-specific medical premiums, and its target user is human resources staff or managers. If you are coaching employees directly, use Snapshot.

The following questions are to gather general information about each potential organization interested in accessing the tools and their intended use of the tools.

Fields with an asterisk (*) are required.

Organization name(s): *

Primary Contact Name: *

Email: *

Phone number: *

Briefly describe the overall mission and activities of your organization(s): *

Briefly describe the primary clients/customers for your organization(s): *

How do benefits cliffs or other financial barriers affect your clients? *

How do you intend to use the CLIFF suite of tools? Please specify the tool or tools you are interested in: Snapshot, Dashboard, Planner, and/or Employer Edition. *

Please provide additional details about your usage of the tools, including Target clients/users, Anticipated number of clients/users, Geographic location, Time frame of tool usage, Plans for data tracking/evaluating outcomes:

What support would you find most useful? (Check all that apply.) * Training on tools Sharing effective practices with other organizations in the state Sharing effective practices with other organizations outside of the state Support with evaluation of pilot results Support with policy analysis for solutions to benefits cliff Training and support on use with coaching and case management models

Of the support areas listed above, which ones are most important? *

Please provide additional thoughts, comments, or questions to help develop and direct use and implementation of the tools:

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