PolicyEngine / PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk
Healthy Start
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Description
https://www.gov.uk/healthy-start
1-2 food vouchers per week worth 4.25. Means-tested based on program participation and some other criteria.
This paper also mentions that:
There are roughly 500,000 eligible beneficiaries in England, but uptake has been declining from 73% in 2015 to 51% in 2020
The link is broken, but that uptake data is available at the NHS here. The latest data is 51.5% as of December 2021. That suggests it's around 60 million in benefits per year.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the Healthy Start information at gov.uk and the NHS healthcare-professionals page, then determine how this benefit should be represented in policyengine-uk; the issue does not define what completion or validation should look like.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100