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Maintenance loans

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This'll entail modelling both the initial loan per year (dependent on family income) as well as the student loan component to be repaid.

nikhilwoodruff

- [ ] Ensure all uprating values in [the official report](https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9439/CBP-9439.pdf) are manually programmed in OpenFisca-UK. - [ ] Ensure rounding (to the nearest penny) is applied - [ ]...

nikhilwoodruff

## New policy parameter: benefit uprating This should be a percentage by which to increase all benefits, above the normal uprating.

nikhilwoodruff

We should be ready to quickly produce an analysis of any tax-benefit reforms announced on the 23rd of March. Possible reforms are: * Delays to planned reforms (incl. NI social...

nikhilwoodruff

This would allow UKMOD users to compare OpenFisca-UK's input data with UKMOD default data and see how the outputs of reforms look. Filing here rather than in OpenFisca-UK-Data, as some...

nikhilwoodruff

For example, to model the ["Guaranteed Income for the 21st Century"](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDFPwUYu2Rf4RGgXuOTacmBj2Gt9paAV/view) proposal: >The support phases out gradually for households with an adjusted gross income above $10,000 (for single-adult households) or...

MaxGhenis

Add high-income households

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It's likely that a restraint on the success of the reweighting routine is the lack of observations of high-income households. For example, our targets include income tax revenue from individuals...

nikhilwoodruff

Debugging https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine/issues/329, I think the issue is caused by some unwanted interaction between basic income and housing benefit and guarantee credit (pension credit).

nikhilwoodruff

Remove play and stop buttons from mtr_chart

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They don't work due to https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/issues/3223. Per [SO](https://stackoverflow.com/a/68624635/1840471), this will work: ``` fig["layout"].pop("updatemenus") fig.show() ```

MaxGhenis

Add takeup to reweighting routine

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Leaving out of #505 because it's more complex and we're already matching targets well. I think it would improve the reweighting to add takeup - specifically the UC takeup rate,...

nikhilwoodruff