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Add Guardian's Allowance
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 50
- Forks
- 33
- Avg merge
- 20h 58m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 14
Description
Guardian's Allowance is a weekly payment to people caring for a child whose parents have died. It's not taxable, doesn't affect other benefits, and isn't subject to the Child Benefit's High Income Tax Charge (it's essentially a true child allowance for orphans).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reading the linked GOV.UK Guardian's Allowance guidance, then inspect existing benefit implementations and tests to find the relevant integration points. Done means the allowance is represented with its stated tax and benefit interactions and covered by appropriate tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100