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

• Disability Allowance Does the family have a child who meets the criteria for disabled
• Social Security Regulation Family has a child under 6 years old and eligible for Disability Allowance and in minimum childcare hours per week
• Social Security Regulation Family has resident child aged 5 who will be enrolled in school and in minimum childcare hours per week
• En The age of the youngest member of a family
• Parental Leave /variables/parental_leave__family_includes_biological_mother_as_partner

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

• Student Allowance Eligible to certain allowances under Student Allowance Regulations
• En Is a step-parent?
• Acc Is a potential earner
• Income Tax A person's taxable income for a tax year
• Parental Leave has transferred all or part of her entitlement to a parental leave payment to that spouse or partner

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