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Include the Scottish devolved disability benefits in the LHA size-criteria benefit lists #2041
Description
Activity
The Council Tax Reduction non-dependant exemption lists the same devolved benefits, so it belongs in this issue's "other provisions" too. No deduction is made for any non-dependant where the applicant or partner is blind or receives one of the listed benefits:
Provision Devolved benefits listed SI 2012/2885 Sch 1 para 8(6) (England, prescribed requirements) pension age disability payment; Scottish adult DLA (care); adult disability payment (daily living) SSI 2021/249 reg 90(6) (Scotland, working age) child disability payment (care); adult disability payment (daily living); pension age disability payment; Scottish adult DLA (care) SSI 2012/319 reg 48(6) (Scotland, pension age) pension age disability payment; child disability payment (care); adult disability payment (daily living); Scottish adult DLA (care) The model reads this in
council_tax_reduction_applicant_has_non_dep_exemption(per claiming family with #2015). It checks blindness, attendance allowance, DLA care, PIP daily living and AFIP only, because the model has no variable for the devolved payments. Main had the same gap incouncil_tax_reduction_household_has_non_dep_exemption.Raised by @vahid-ahmadi in the review of #2015 (item 4).
The LHA size-criteria benefit lists name only DWP benefits:
gov.dwp.LHA.overnight_care_benefits, the overnight care bedroom, added in Count other families' children and add the foster and overnight-care bedrooms in the LHA size criteria #2016;gov.dwp.LHA.shared_accommodation_exception_benefits, the UC shared accommodation exception.The law also names the Scottish devolved equivalents:
policyengine-uk has no variables for these benefits. A Scottish recipient counts only where the data records them as DLA, PIP or attendance allowance.
Task
Raised in the review of #2016 (round 1, F8).