means
Let an agent handle means as financial resources, especially in means testing for benefits and services, without personal financial advice.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Assessment Means testing.
Counts
What is included.
Counts
What counts.
- What counts as income and capital for this scheme? provenance
- Are some assets disregarded? provenance
Eligibility
Checkers.
Eligibility
Eligibility.
- Where is the official eligibility checker? provenance
- What thresholds apply? measurement
Support Help.
Benefits
Entitlements.
Benefits
Benefits.
- Which means-tested benefits or legal aid might apply? provenance
- How can someone apply? action
Budgeting
Free advice.
Budgeting
Budgeting help.
- Which free budgeting or money advice services exist here? provenance
- Is the person in urgent hardship? boundary
Limits Advice.
Advice
Personal finance.
Advice
Advice limit.
- Is the user asking for personal financial advice? boundary
- How should they be referred? action
Privacy
Financial data.
Privacy
Financial privacy.
- Is sensitive financial information being shared unnecessarily? boundary
- How can it be protected? action
Senses Disambiguation.
Method
Means to an end.
Method
Method sense.
- Is means as a method or instrument meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Statistics
Averages.
Statistics
Statistics sense.
- Are statistical means (averages) meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.possession
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ECO
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- substance, pocketbook, wherewithal
What it is Filled
Considerable capital, wealth or income available to a person or household, as in living within or beyond one means; relevant to means-tested benefits, legal aid and fees.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle means as financial resources, especially in means testing for benefits and services, without personal financial advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Financial resources
- Assessed in means tests
- Includes income and capital
- Rules vary by scheme
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give personal financial advice.
- Judge or shame people for their means.
- Help hide income or assets to obtain means-tested support unlawfully.
- Share a person's financial details without consent.
Only with a human decision
- Eligibility decisions.
May
- Explain means tests and the rules for benefits, legal aid or fees from official sources.
- Help a person check what they may be entitled to.
Moral aspects Filled
- Means tests can deny people help they need and stigmatise those who claim it.
- Financial details are private.
Who is affected
- Claimants
- Households
- Public services
Owners Filled
Steward
The person or household whose means they are; agencies assess them under law.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13374622-n - registry parent class
related
- wealth and resources - category
- means test - process
- eligibility for benefits - effect
- means (method) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.means-possession
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13374873-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Income and capital
- Means-tested benefits
- Means as a method is a different sense
- Not physical; income, savings and assets.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain means testing in general terms
- find eligibility checkers for benefits or legal aid
- understand what counts as income and capital
- find free budgeting help
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Missing entitlements
- Agents giving personal financial advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Social security means-testing rules
- Legal aid eligibility rules
Context of use required Filled
- Assessing ability to pay and eligibility for support.
- income
- capital and savings
- assets
- household resources
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13374873-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: means - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should income and capital be separate entries?
- How should eligibility tools be localised?
- How should the method sense be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-means-possession/spec.json