Issues

• High Value Council Tax Surcharge: let properties, second homes and company-held homes are not charged

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2171 · Filter by author vahid-ahmadi opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Model landlords' property income from receipts, expenses and finance costs: the property allowance election, the s. 274A finance-cost reduction and its carry-forward

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2170 · Filter by author juaristi22 opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Road-fuel litres: price divisors are on a January 2024 RAC basis, not the DESNZ basis Microcosm uses; household litres also run below an inferred ONS benchmark, cause not yet quantified

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2169 · Filter by author vahid-ahmadi opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• Document that employer NI reforms pass 100% to wages by default, so gov_balance is not a static costing

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2168 · Filter by author vahid-ahmadi opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• Reforms dated part-way through a year are not day-weighted on fiscal_year_blend parameters (fuel duty), so they score the wrong amount

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2167 · Filter by author vahid-ahmadi opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• The temporary 0% VAT on domestic electricity in Great Britain (1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027) is not modelled, and VAT on domestic energy cannot be changed on its own

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2166 · Filter by author vahid-ahmadi opened on Oct 6, 2026
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• Follow-ups from #2160: qualifying-age docstring, UC work-related groups property-file speed, changelog fragment example

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2162 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 6, 2026

• UC reg 89(1)(a) reads State Pension age instead of the State Pension Credit qualifying age

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2161 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Corporate SDLT is counted twice in household and government tax totals

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2159 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 6, 2026

• Council Tax Reduction: assess every claim's scheme and exemption on its own applicant

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2157 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Correct the protected pension-age Housing Benefit lone-parent allowance projection

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2155 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Correct the protected pension-age Housing Benefit allowance projection

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2154 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Represent the 1 August 2020 over-75 TV licence transition

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2151 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Limit the free TV licence Pension Credit test to partners

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2150 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Correct the free TV licence value's liability trigger and currency treatment

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2149 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Correct the free TV licence value's liability trigger and currency treatment

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2148 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Base TV licence liability on licensable viewing rather than television ownership

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2145 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Include the minimum-guarantee boundary in Guarantee Credit eligibility

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2143 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Model Northern Ireland Energy Price Guarantee rates separately

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2142 · Filter by author anth-volk opened on Oct 5, 2026

• High Value Council Tax Surcharge charges tenants when main_residence_value is positive

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2141 · Filter by author juaristi22 opened on Oct 5, 2026
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• State Pension age addition (25p a week at 80, SSCBA 1992 s.79) is not modelled

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2139 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Pension Age Winter Heating Payment: winter 2025 amounts don't follow SSI 2025/282, and the references cite the wrong SSI

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2138 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 5, 2026

• Give migration directions for the removed gov.dwp.carer_premium.couple parameter (generalise add_removed_parameter_aliases)

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2137 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 4, 2026

• Benefit cap reduction is taken from both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit for a family receiving both

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2136 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 4, 2026

• Scottish top rate (48%) starts at £116,760: threshold stored as £112,570 instead of £125,140

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#2130 · Filter by author MaxGhenis opened on Oct 4, 2026