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Which benefit calculator?
Hello
In my other job, it looks as though they are not going to be able to continue funding QBC. QBC is great because you can run through different scenarios quickly. Which other free online calculators do advisers use and recommend?
I haven’t found any comparable alternatives. As far as I’ve found all the online ones only work sequentially, which is far too much of a pain to work with.
I’ve always put it to my employers that QBC saves me time, but the old time = money doesn’t always work with charities and funding restrictions.
If I didn’t have QBC I’d probably code a calculator myself 😊
I agree Val1der, nothing else works as well as QBC- the others are much too slow. I’ll need to keep lobbying for QBC…
Indeed. QBC is head and shoulders better than anything else I have ever encountered.
I haven’t found any comparable alternatives. As far as I’ve found all the online ones only work sequentially, which is far too much of a pain to work with….
If I didn’t have QBC I’d probably code a calculator myself :)
Just to point out that Ferret’s Ferrcalc is a non-sequential calculator, with the commonest information all on one screen. It can be accessed as a web version if wanted.
Enjoy writing your own :-). I spent yesterday doing 12 years of consolidation of a set of regs, thanks to legislation.gov not updating them; all for 2 parameters.
I see you’ve gone for the same brutalist design as QBC Gareth 😊 Is there a trial/demo version of Ferrcalc? I’d be intrigued to try it.
If I was working with a very limited client group I might have had a go at writing something of my own, but there are so many fringe scenarios to account for.
I’ve also toyed with the idea of writing something a bit more user friendly - as we found several of the online communities are discouraging the use of online calculators because they find them inaccurate/unreliable, and I suspect this is largely down to user error. But again, so many more or less common scenarios to account for.
For the time being I’ll probably just stick to making a new website for my local board game group.
We have an adapted version of the Entitled To benefit calculator which is designed to strip out some of the less relevant information for older people.
I find it fairly straightforward to use although I do prefer pen and paper in many instances. This is good though as you get CTS calculations as well, not sure if others do, presumably so?
Just to point out that Ferret’s Ferrcalc is a non-sequential calculator, with the commonest information all on one screen. It can be accessed as a web version if wanted.
Hello
Is there a version of Ferrcalc anywhere to try out?
Thanks
Just ask us for a demo. I’ll send you a link to our email address.
Thanks, have done so.