Phase 1: you submit an application
What happens here
Your application goes through the same processing as any other incoming case: seal, working copy, extract, prove, decide, notify. This page attaches the deployment's own token on the server; the raw endpoint POST /ingest stays closed with a 403 for direct callers.
Every applicant on this page is invented. The names, dates of birth, insurance numbers and addresses were constructed for this demonstration and belong to nobody.
Choose a fictional applicant
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Sabine Musterfrau chosen
Employment-status determination under par. 7a SGB IV
Frau Musterfrau has been working since January as a freelance IT consultant for one larger client and wants to know whether that counts as self-employment. She never names the procedure - her submission carries no channel hint.
Expected outcome: With no channel hint, the procedure is derived from the CONTENT (a client and an activity named together) and the case goes to the clearing unit, 340. Par. 7a demands an overall appraisal rather than a checklist, which is why tier 1 is not enabled for this procedure at all and the case lands with a human in full.
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Beate Schliebermann
Employment-status determination under par. 7a SGB IV, complete
Frau Schliebermann has been working since March as a freelance technical writer for a single client and applies for a determination of her employment status. She names the procedure, and every answer is in the form.
Expected outcome: Complete and cleanly routed: the case goes to the clearing unit, 340. Because par. 7a demands an overall appraisal rather than a checklist, tier 1 is not enabled for this procedure at all - a complete file buys no automatic decision here. No request for information and no flag are produced; the case lands with a human in full.
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Bernd Beispielmann
Employment-status determination with no start date
Herr Beispielmann fills in the form but leaves open since when he has been working for his client. Everything else is there.
Expected outcome: Routable but incomplete: tier 2 at the clearing unit, 340. A request for information is prepared that asks for exactly the missing answer - in the procedure configuration's own wording, not in a generated sentence.
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Theo Musterkind
Employment-status determination with a start date far ahead
Herr Musterkind fills the form in completely and within every rule - and enters a start of the activity far in the future, even though he is applying for a determination after taking the activity up. Every single answer is permissible.
Expected outcome: The calendar bounds in the procedure configuration are absolute and wide; they deliberately do not catch "possible, but unusual". That is exactly the shadow scorer's job: it flags the case and names its reason in plain words. Because the scorer runs in log_only mode the flag MOVES nothing - the page shows which tier an armed scorer would have set, and that the decision was reached without it.
What you can try
Go ahead and change things. Each of the changes below makes the system do something DIFFERENT, and something real - and the next step shows you exactly what.
- Delete the insurance number
- Empty the text box. The completeness check reports a gap, the case lands on tier 2, and a request for information is prepared carrying exactly the sentence the procedure configuration provides for it.
- Make the date of birth implausible
- Pick 1 January 1902 in the calendar. The insurance number carries the date of birth in positions 3 to 8 and no longer matches it: the cross-field check fires, without anything being unsealed.
- Push the start of the activity far into the future
- Pick 1 January 2035. The calendar bounds in the procedure configuration deliberately do not catch that - it is the shadow scorer's job, and it flags the case and names its reason in plain words.
- Empty the client
- On the applications that carry a channel hint this opens a gap and prepares a request for information asking for exactly that detail. With Frau Musterfrau, whose procedure is derived from the content, the derivation loses one of its two supports - the client and the activity are read together there.
- Empty the given name
- The surname goes through on its own. Both boxes write to the same place in the submission; the page joins them before anything is sealed, and an empty box is left out rather than sent as a space.