Decision guides

What a guide adds

The network publishes each article on its own site, under its own desk, with its own sources. That is good for keeping a legal question separate from a health question. It is bad for the person whose real question touches both, because the answer is not contained in any one page.

The missing piece is usually not a fact. It is the order in which several facts have to be established: one answer is an input to the next, so looking them up in the wrong order means re-doing the later decisions. A guide supplies that order, and says plainly why each step has to come before the one after it.

The rule these guides follow

• No new dates, figures or legal conclusions. Every factual statement links to a page that already published it, and that page's primary sources are reproduced on the guide itself.
• The citations are checked at build time. If a page is moved or unpublished, the build fails rather than leaving a guide pointing at nothing.
• The limits are stated on the page. A guide does not tell you which state's rule applies, what your plan documents say, or what your own numbers are.
• A guide says what it does not settle, and points to the page that does. Where a rule is still subject to change, that uncertainty is carried across rather than smoothed over.

If you want the underlying pages directly, the full index searches every article on the network, and the hub tools turn published figures into lookups and calculators.