Room and Board - Application Questions

[CarlyCotton]

User Story As a student, I need to provide information about my living situation to identify if I qualify for a Room and Board exception cost or if I need to be considered living away from home.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] Update the FT application 25-26 question(s) related to living at home based on the workflow in the additional context.
• [ ] These questions should NOT be shown to any students with "married" status.
• [ ] All question responses should be available in Camunda/Consolidated Data
• [ ] All questions are required, if applicable for the student.

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• [ ] Will you be living in a home paid for by your parent(s)/step-parent/sponsor/legal guardian during your study period?
  • [ ] Yes/No options
    • YES: Provide the self-contained suite question.
    • NO: No further questions.
  • [ ] livingAtHome

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• [ ] Are you living independently in a self-contained suite?
  • [ ] Yes/No options:
    • YES: No further questions.
    • NO: Provide the paying rent to parent question.
  • [ ] selfContainedSuite
  • [ ] Tooltip:

    • The suite has a separate entrance, kitchen, bathroom and living area/bedroom; and
    • You are paying fair market rent and responsible for your share of the utilities (hydro, telephone, cable, etc. if not included in rent).

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• [ ] Are you paying rent to your parent(s)/step-parent/sponsor/legal guardian?

  • [ ] Yes/No options
    • YES: Info banner:

    Room and board appeal Based on your answers you may be eligible for a reassessment based on your exceptional circumstances. Once your application has been submitted and the enrolment has been confirmed by your institution, you can review the Room and Board appeal information to understand if you are eligible to submit the request.

    • NO: No further questions.
  • [ ] livingAtHomeRent

• [ ] Exception and uploader should be removed

Additional Context This relates to the work done on #2146 Current Question:

Will you be living in a home paid for by your parent(s)/step-parent/sponsor/legal guardian during your study period?

[Joshua-Lakusta]

@CarlyCotton Currently base line for the self contained suite does reference they are paying fair market value. Lets discuss with policy tomorrow in the weekly meeting.

[Joshua-Lakusta]

@CarlyCotton Regardless of policy, the current practice is to complete the independent students in the appeal path. Can we discuss having both go down the new appeal path or both go down exception but currently dependent or independent are adjudicated together. Erik has discussed with SCR and spoke about updating policy to be in line with best practice. Lets chat more.

[CarlyCotton]

@Joshua-Lakusta Self-contained suite (including paying fair market rent) is the "self-contained suite" question. Dependent or independent, if they are self-contained and paying fair market rent they are considered AWAY. (Not exception or appeal)

Regardless of policy, the current practice is to complete the independent students in the appeal path. Can we discuss having both go down the new appeal path or both go down exception but currently dependent or independent are adjudicated together.

Really wish I was there for the discussion, we have layers on layers of overlapping discussion with different groups now. I would put them BOTH on exception path except for the dependants being required to have $0 of parental contribution to have this cost assessed. If that's not the case and we treat them the same then there's no need for an appeal.

[CarlyCotton]

@Joshua-Lakusta Based on our discussions and consultation with the other groups - condensing full room and board path into Appeal due to adjudication potentially requiring the calculated parental contribution. Creating a new ticket to support appeal path and will update this one to move forward with this.

[ninosamson]

@CarlyCotton - note the keys for consolidated values, as I followed the standard. I used the keys you identified in the ticket for formio.