the Web Benefits Calculator

As you may know, our "WebBenCalc" is a new product (in the footsteps of the famous Quick Benefits Calculator) that runs on your Web Site, giving your customers 24 * 7 online access to Benefits estimates and giving you an instant "e-government" project. Since it successfully completed it's 4 week "live test run" on Amber Valley Borough Council's web site in May 02, some very tasteful manifestations of the WebBenCalc have appeared on other prestigious web sites. Take a moment to check these out.

Cherwell District Council at http://www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/web-ben-calc/wbc.htm
Guildford Borough Council http://www.guildford.gov.uk/GuildfordWeb/Housing/Housing+Benefit/
Amber Valley Borough Council at http://www.ambervalley.gov.uk/Services/Financial/webcalc.asp
Mid Devon District Council  http://www.middevon.gov.uk/revenues/Benefits/HB_Calculator/HB_Calculator.htm
Salford City Council at http://www.salford.gov.uk/calculator
and the IRRV at http://www.irrv.org.uk/BENEFITS/bencalculator.asp 

And here's a press cutting from the Richmond & Twickenham Times - November 2003 - with thanks to Chris Light (Systems Development Officer) at the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/depts/finance/
revenues/benefits/calc/_calculator.htm  

The licence fee for an authority who already use any of our programs would be £150.00 per annum to run the Web benefits calculator on their website - otherwise £250.00 per annum. This subscription service covers all maintenance updates, enhancements and support. There should be no technical issues - the WebBenCalc runs without any "cgi script" complications so it should be fine on any server configuration. Remember that you can customise the appearance of the page as much as you like - just leave our embedded (slightly scrambled) javascript code and the form fields safely alone. So you can change the html to compliment your overall site design as much as you like.

And another thing, being html, the WebBenCalc runs on PDA's (handhelds) as well !

For 2003 the WBC program features an automatic in-line Tax Credit calculation (if appropriate) for the new Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Pension Credit. We have also suppressed the display of various "unnecessary" fields, And we've been adopting sundry suggestions to "de-jargonize" the screen text wherever possible, so the form is now even easier to understand. Plus, the vanilla-ization process is now complete - we've standardised on one (Arial) font aand a couple of body styles - so you can change the whole appearance by just altering a couple of body style statements! 

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