Mobile App

When a report is produced on the challenges families contend with to meet the costs of a decent standard of living, called the Real Cost Measure (www.unitedwaysca.org/realcost), and we also partner with Benefit Kitchen to allow families to screen themselves to see what benefits they may be eligible for (e.g., CalFresh food assistance). It would be great if a team could help us develop a new mobile app that gathers information from users about their household income, number, and ages of family members, and then compares that to the Real Cost Measure household budgets, and do that for California and other states (starting with New York).

Project Description

The United Way mobile app helps people have an estimate cost of living within different California counties. Currently only provides information for California counties, plans for the app will support other states are currently under consideration. Another Portion of the app connects with the Benefit Kitchen to inform the users what benefits they may be eligible for.