Converting duration between dates to "XX Years + yy Months"

roscoe

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Trying to build lookup table for Social Security benefits based on birthday and date to start receiving benefits. The SSA table shows the age of the claimant in a string format such as "67 + 3 Months".

The date is generated by subtracting the birth date from the claim date. I had a string generator that worked perfectly...until I picked a claim date whose month was earlier than the birthdate (i.e. claim in July but the birthdate is in Oct). The resulting string was "66 + -3 months" which should really be "65 + 9 months". Maybe it's late, but I'm stumped. I thought I'd try a custom function but I'm getting nowhere (no matter how simple I create a test function I get #NAME? as the result. I've built user-defined functions before (granted I'm rusty) but this shouldn't be this hard...

Any help would be appreciated
 

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