Tiers define the sliding-scale payment structure. Lanes define behavioral compliance levels used for evaluations and reporting.
Payment Tiers (Sliding Scale)
Tier 1
$50/mo
Income < $2,000/mo
42 clients
Tier 2
$75/mo
Income $2,000–$4,000/mo
128 clients
Tier 3
$100/mo
Income $4,000–$6,000/mo
58 clients
Tier 4
$150/mo
Income > $6,000/mo
19 clients
Compliance Lanes
Lane A — Full Compliance
Attendance ≥ 90%, all coursework current, payments current, positive evaluations
Lane B — Partial Compliance
Attendance 70–89%, minor coursework gaps, or 1 payment behind
Lane C — Non-Compliance
Attendance < 70%, 2+ missed payments, major coursework gaps, or behavioral issue
Rule Engine — Configuration Hierarchy
⚑ PENDING — County tier / override model documentation (D38)
Owed by S2S: which base rules a county may override, the precedence order when State / County / District / Site disagree, whether a county inherits-and-overrides vs. forks the base program, and who may author overrides at each level. The hierarchy chain below is illustrative only until this model is confirmed. Income bands that drive tiering are authored in County Rules (I8).
Rules resolve top-down with per-level overrides: State → County → District → Site. Backed by 47 config files (e.g. course_types.txt, intake_Steps.csv).
| Rule | Level | Value | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max absences before review | County (LA) | 3 | v4 | Active |
| Lane A→B transition class | State | #17 | v2 | Active |
| Sliding-scale floor | District (East) | $40/mo | v1 | Draft |
County-specific variants are resolved by county context — e.g. Ventura payment rules, Santa Clara court-filer format, Madera report template — without forking the base program.
Fee Waivers
This is the canonical approval routing for fee waivers. The income determination review (I6) honors this routing — a flagged waiver routes here rather than being decided inline. Routing: Full → Director; Partial → Compliance or Accounting. Income bands that trigger a waiver request feed from County Rules (I8); they are not authored here. Waiver policy & coverage (type / waived-through / reassessment) are authored in County Rules (WaiverTypeRule); this page owns the approval display + routing only (I6 · D80).
Approved fee waivers (full or partial) by client.
| Client | Type | Reason | Approval Routing | Approved By | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Kim | Full | Indigency (agency funded) | Director | T. Johnson (Director) | Active |
| Steven Martinez | Partial (50%) | Hardship | Compliance / Accounting | — | Pending |
| Aaliyah Brooks | Full | Indigency (agency funded) | Director | — | Pending |
Agency Hierarchy
Parent agencies can hold child sub-agencies; child config inherits from parent unless overridden. (Also surfaced in Admin.)