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Electric bill

Her sister Lucy pays the $138 electric bill every month.

Sample household: Maya, 29, lives on her own, has an ABLE account and $1,240 in savings. Her full SSI check is $994 in 2026, $1,029 from January 2027.

The input

  • Electric bill, Northside Electric Co-op (sample) from Lucy$138Paid to the shop, 2026-04-10, every month

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The result

Her check in June 2026

$876

Send it to her ABLE account

$994

Help with utilities counts as housing support, up to $351.33 a month. $118 would be counted, so her June 2026 check would be $876. Sending it to her ABLE account keeps her June 2026 check at $994.

Utilities paid by someone else count as housing support. Two reviewers check whether this bill is a utility.

The rules behind this

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Live AI

Claude reads the sample bill now, and the rules engine prices what it read. Each live press is one Claude call, counted against the site’s daily AI budget of $2.

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Two reviewers, two rulebooks

Is this bill a housing cost? Each reviewer answers from its own rulebook and quotes it word for word. A program checks every quote before Giftwise acts.

Regulations reviewer

Reads only the federal regulations and the Federal Register.

A housing cost

“Shelter includes room, rent, mortgage payments, real property taxes, heating fuel, gas, electricity, water, sewerage, and garbage collection services.”

20 CFR 416.1130(b)(1)

Quote checked: found word for word in that passage.

Yes, this is a shelter cost. Electricity is on the regulation's list of shelter items, so someone else paying it counts as in-kind support.

Manual reviewer

Reads only Social Security's operating manual (POMS).

A housing cost

“In household LA's, shelter costs (also known as “items of shelter” ) are mortgage payments, property insurance (if required by a mortgageholder), rent, gas, electricity, heating fuel, water, sewer, garbage collection service, and real property taxes.”

POMS SI 00835.020B.36

Quote checked: found word for word in that passage.

Yes, this is a shelter cost. Electricity for her home is on the manual's list of shelter costs, so someone else paying it counts as in-kind support.

The referee

Both reviewers found it in their own rulebook: this bill is a housing cost.

Giftwise will send it to her ABLE account. Her June 2026 check stays $994.

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Recorded Nov 2, 2026 with Claude Opus 5.5.