It's almost as if the government doesn't want people to succeed in life, to strive to better themselves, to work hard to get off the government dole. \s
There are easy ways to write formulas to prevent this "sawtooth" affect. Companies do it all the time when offering volume discounts to their customers. The last thing you want in business is a pricing plan where the customer reaches a volume of purchases of, say, $100,000 and the next dollar bumps them to the next price tier where they have to pay only $90,000. The goobers at FedGovInc have done essentially that with subsidies.
Stupidity, thy name if FedGov.
Every single government welfare program is like that. You make $1 more than their limit and bam you pay more or lose the benefit entirely.
That’s one reason why people ‘work’ (hah!) so hard at either not working or staying under the limits.
“We need to pass it, in order to find out what is in it.” Nancy Pelosi = Sen CA