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Apply take-up rate to income-based ESA
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 50
- Forks
- 33
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 14
Description
Per https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2018-to-2019 income-based ESA take-up is tracked the same as Income Support (currently 90%)
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
Start by reading the linked government take-up statistics and locating where income-based ESA and Income Support take-up rates are represented. Confirm how the existing 90% Income Support rate is applied, then make income-based ESA follow the same treatment and verify the related model tests or outputs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100