Apply each scheme's own non-dependant test to the LHA shared accommodation rate

changelog.d/2011.fixed.md

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+- Count the children of the household head's non-dependants (Universal Credit, UC Regs 2013 Sch 4 paras 9-10) and of non-dependants, boarders and lodgers (Housing Benefit, HB Regs 2006 reg 13D(12)) in the household head's LHA size criteria, sharing rooms with the head's own children. Give foster children no bedroom of their own, and foster parents, adopters with a child placed, and households with a non-resident overnight carer an additional bedroom (UC Sch 4 para 12; HB reg 13D(3A)-(3B)), with new inputs `is_placed_for_adoption`, `is_approved_foster_parent_without_placement` and `has_non_resident_overnight_carer`. Except foster parents from the shared accommodation rate (UC para 29(9A); HB "young individual"), and count armed forces independence payment in the UC para 29(5) exception. Give an occupier couple from another family one Housing Benefit bedroom (HB reg 13D(3)(a)). A child placed for adoption leaves the legacy household (HB reg 21(3), IS reg 16(4), JSA reg 78(4), ESA reg 156(5)) and is not a Tax-Free Childcare qualifying child (Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regs 2015 reg 4(2)(d)). Treat a person under 18 looked after by a local authority and placed with the renter as the renter's foster child throughout the Universal Credit size criteria (`is_lha_foster_child`). Apply the 2017 extension of the overnight care bedroom beyond the renter or claimant from April 2017. Leave a child placed with the family out of the Income Support youngest-child test (IS reg 16(4)). Treat the looked-after flag as applying only under 18 (`is_looked_after_child`) in the UC, CTC, Pension Credit and legacy placement tests. Add Income Support Sch 1B para 2 (a single claimant or lone parent with whom a child is placed by a local authority).

changelog.d/lha-sar-non-dep-per-scheme.fixed.md

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+- Split the LHA shared accommodation rate's non-dependant test by scheme. Universal Credit uses its own non-dependant and qualifying young person definitions (`universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant`; UC Sch 4 paras 9 and 28). Housing Benefit uses reg 3 and the Child Benefit young person (`housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant`; reg 13D(2)(a)(i)), including a non-dependant of joint occupiers. The rule treating every 16-year-old as a dependant is removed. The UC specified-renter test now uses UC responsibility only.

policyengine_uk/parameters/gov/dwp/LHA/overnight_care_benefits.yaml

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+description: Disability benefits whose recipients, if non-resident carers regularly stay overnight to care for them, give an additional bedroom in the LHA size criteria. The law also lists the Scottish devolved equivalents (child disability payment, adult disability payment, Scottish adult disability living allowance, pension age disability payment), which the model has no variables for.
+values:
+  2011-04-01:
+    - attendance_allowance
+    - armed_forces_independence_payment
+    - dla_sc_middle_plus
+    - pip_dl
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  label: LHA overnight care qualifying benefits
+  reference:
+    - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 Sch 4 para 12(3)(a)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/schedule/4/paragraph/12
+    - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 reg 2, "attendance allowance" (includes armed forces independence payment)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/regulation/2
+    - title: Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 reg 2(1), "person who requires overnight care"
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/regulation/2
+    - title: Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2006 reg 2(1), "person who requires overnight care"
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/214/regulation/2

policyengine_uk/parameters/gov/dwp/LHA/overnight_care_beyond_claimant.yaml

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+description: Whether the overnight care additional bedroom in the LHA size criteria covers people other than the renter or claimant and partner, such as non-dependants, other occupiers and foster children.
+values:
+  2011-04-01: false
+  2017-04-01: true
+metadata:
+  unit: bool
+  label: LHA overnight care covers the household
+  reference:
+    - title: Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/213) regs 4 and 6
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/213/made
+    - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 Sch 4 para 12(A1)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/schedule/4/paragraph/12
+    - title: Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 reg 13D(3A)(a)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/213/regulation/13D

policyengine_uk/parameters/gov/dwp/LHA/shared_accommodation_exception_benefits.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-description: Disability benefits whose recipients under 35 are excepted from the shared accommodation rate.
+description: Disability benefits whose recipients under 35 are excepted from the shared accommodation rate. The law also lists the Scottish devolved equivalents (child disability payment, adult disability payment, Scottish adult disability living allowance), which the model has no variables for.
 values:
   2013-04-29:
     - attendance_allowance
+    - armed_forces_independence_payment
     - dla_sc_middle_plus
     - pip_dl
 metadata:
@@ -10,3 +11,5 @@ metadata:
   reference:
     - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 Sch 4 para 29(5)
       href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/schedule/4/paragraph/29
+    - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 reg 2, "attendance allowance" (includes armed forces independence payment)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/regulation/2

policyengine_uk/parameters/household/demographic/looked_after_child_age_limit.yaml

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+description: Age below which a person can be a child looked after by a local authority, and so a foster child.
+values:
+  2010-01-01: 18
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  label: looked-after child age limit
+  reference:
+    - title: Children Act 1989 s.22(1) (a child who is looked after by a local authority) and s.105(1) ("child" means a person under the age of eighteen)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/section/105
+    - title: Universal Credit Regulations 2013 reg 2, "foster parent" and "looked after by a local authority"
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/regulation/2

policyengine_uk/tests/policy/baseline/finance/benefit/family/LHA_claimant_composition.yaml

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
   output:
     is_claimant_or_partner: true
     is_responsible_for_child_or_qualifying_young_person_for_universal_credit: false
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: false
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: true
     # Single; 17 < 35; no dependant or non-dependant: A (previously B).
     LHA_category: A
@@ -19,7 +20,8 @@
   input:
     age: 30
   output:
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: false
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: true
     # Single; 30 < 35; no other occupants: A.
     LHA_category: A
@@ -61,7 +63,8 @@
         members: [renter, apprentice]
   output:
     is_responsible_for_child_or_qualifying_young_person_for_universal_credit: false
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: true
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: true
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: true
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: false
     # No UC QYP (UC Regs 2013 reg 5(3): training under a contract of
     # employment does not count), but a non-dependant blocks A. The
@@ -88,7 +91,8 @@
   output:
     is_couple: false
     is_responsible_for_child_or_qualifying_young_person_for_universal_credit: true
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: false
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: false
     # Responsibility for a UC QYP blocks A. The QYP has a bedroom (Sch 4
     # para 10(1)(b)): 1 + 1 = 2: C.
@@ -113,7 +117,8 @@
   output:
     is_couple: true
     is_responsible_for_child_or_qualifying_young_person_for_universal_credit: false
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: false
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: false
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: false
     # A partner establishes neither QYP responsibility nor a non-dependant;
     # couple room = 1: B under the existing bedroom calculation.
@@ -138,7 +143,8 @@
       home:
         members: [renter, apprentice]
   output:
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
     is_lha_shared_accommodation_rate_specified_renter: [false, true]
     # The renter (the household head, the elder) has the apprentice as a
     # non-dependant: 1 + 1 non-dependant aged 16+ = 2: C. Only the household
@@ -165,7 +171,8 @@
       home:
         members: [renter, student_claimant]
   output:
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: [true, false]
     # The other family's claimant is the household head's non-dependant even
     # if their age and education meet the QYP test: 1 + 1 = 2: C. The
     # student's own family has no non-dependant: A.
@@ -191,7 +198,8 @@
         members: [renter, other_renter]
   output:
     eldest_claimant_or_partner_age: [30, 40]
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
     # A person liable on a commercial basis for their occupation is not a
     # non-dependant (UC Sch 4 para 9(2)(d)), so neither family adds a bedroom
     # to the other. Renter: single, 30 < 35, no non-dependant: A. Household
@@ -217,7 +225,8 @@
       second_home:
         members: [other_renter]
   output:
-    lha_renter_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
+    universal_credit_renter_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
+    housing_benefit_claimant_has_non_dependant: [false, false]
     # Single, 30 < 35, nobody else in this household: A.
     # Other renter 40 >= 35; 1 bedroom: B.
     LHA_category: [A, B]