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Benefit Eligibility Finder

Finds government schemes a family may qualify for.

Intermediate24h1–3 people16/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Benefit Eligibility Finder for low-income families and social workers in ~24h with 1–3 people. Stack: Next.js + RAG + LLM.

Why it wins: Direct help for real people, with sources.

Build flow

01 · Problem
People miss benefits because rules are buried in long documents.
02 · Solution
A short questionnaire matched against scheme rules retrieved from official documents, with source links.
03 · Build
  1. 1Collect official docs
  2. 2Chunk + embed rules
  3. 3Match answers
  4. 4Results with sources
04 · Demo
Answer 6 questions → 3 matched schemes with official source links.

MVP checklist

  • Simple questionnaire
  • Rule retrieval
  • Matched schemes
  • Official source links

Tech stack

TechRole
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
RAGRetrieval over your docs
LLMLanguage model

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