Rapu Ture - Exploring the Rules

Family

13 variables 5 roles

A Family represents a collection of related persons.

Family entities are required for calculations across a number of entitlements including for example "Working for families" and "Paid Parental Leave"

A family can contain a number of roles, such as 'principal_caregiver', 'partner' & 'child'.

For more information on entities, see: http://openfisca.org/doc/coding-the-legislation/50_entities.html

Families can have multiple principle_caregivers but as each entitlement is calculated in relation to the Principle Caregiver it is recommended for modelling to create multiple family sets per caregiver to describe each scenario

Example variables

• Social Security Regulation Family has a resident child who is under 5 years old, not in school and in minimum childcare hours per week
• Social Security Family has an unsupported child
• Social Security Family is caring for an orphan as per Social Security Act 1964
• Parental Leave /variables/parental_leave__family_includes_biological_mother_as_partner
• Disability Allowance Does the family have a child who meets the criteria for disabled

Person

222 variables

A Person represents an individual, the minimal legal entity on which a legislation might be applied.

Example: The 'salary' and 'income_tax' variables are usually defined for the entity 'Person'.

Usage: Calculate a variable applied to a 'Person' (e.g. access the 'salary' of a specific month with person('salary', "2017-05")). Check the role of a 'Person' in a group entity (e.g. check if a the 'Person' is a 'owner' in a 'TitledProperty' entity with person.hasrole(Titled_Property.owner)).

For more information on entities, see: http://openfisca.org/doc/coding-the-legislation/50_entities.html

Example variables

• En Yearly income of this person
• Social Security Residential requirements for certain benefits
• En Number of years lived in NZ
• Veterans Support Is classified as receiving a children's pension
• En Child will be enrolled in a school that has a cohort entry policy in place

Titled_property

4 variables 2 roles

A Titled property represents a property that is owned by a Person or group of Persons.

Example usage: Check the number of individuals of a specific role: check how many persons co-own the property: titled_properties.nb_persons(Titled_Property.OWNER). Calculate a variable applied to each tenant of the group entity: calculate the income of each member of the Property: tenants_incomes = titled_properties.members('income', period = MONTH); tenants_total_income = titled_properties.sum(tenants_incomes).

For more information on group entities, see: http://openfisca.org/doc/coding-the-legislation/50_entities.html

Example variables

• Rates Rebates Maximum income eligible for the full rebate, less than this number should get full rebate
• Rates Rebates Total rates for the property
• Rates Rebates Yearly rebate applied to housing rates.
• Rates Rebates Minimum income that returns no rebate. Less than this number gets a rebate

Example variables