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Add blog post: the Carer's Allowance earnings taper in the Autumn Budget 2026 - #1464

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- Add blog post: the Pension Tax Allowance, step by step
  
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- Draw the Pension Tax Allowance post's charts as line chart blocks
  
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- Add a net income change chart and put the PTA by tax year first
  
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- Describe the worked examples by income, without the explainer's names
  
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- Use the Chancellor's official portrait as the post's cover
  
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- Show net income with and without the PTA, not the change
  
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- Size the line chart's y axis to its longest tick label
  
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- Move the net income chart between income tax and marginal rates
  
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- Revise the PTA post after a full review of the model and method
  
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- Shorten the wording on the £94 full allowance
  
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- Use an original vector illustration as the PTA post's cover
  
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- Rename the PTA cover so caches load the new illustration
  
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- Show the net income chart around the PTA range again, not from £0
  
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- Put line chart marker labels above the plot; align the PTA chart ranges
  
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- Add Universal Credit to the PTA benefits table; trim the chart sources
  
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- Split the benefits paragraph so Universal Credit has its own
  
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- Show real couple cases for Universal Credit and the PTA
  
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- Add blog post: the Carer's Allowance earnings taper, step by step
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: count PAYE on the allowance against UC, cite sources, round to the pound
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: follow the PTA post's title area
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: explain today's rules, show each step of the examples
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: the taper starts at some point in 2030-31
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: say "net earnings" instead of "earnings for the limit"
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: explain the projected rate; reword the UC key figure
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: whole pounds in the household tables, cost table's sign named
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: population cost from the dashboard's run
  
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- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into HEAD
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: effective marginal tax rates
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: restore the survey-household count; spell out the limit
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: marginal tax rates from PolicyEngine's marginal_tax_rate
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: population figures with the UC adjustment; revert 75e446c8c for now (kept on carers-taper-post-dashboard-population)
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: dashboard's population figures, adjusted cost as a sensitivity
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: call the earnings limit a cliff in the key figures
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: cite policyengine.py 6.11.1, not a policyengine-uk version
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: marginal rates from £0, three chart series, rounded counts
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: describe the model as the PTA post does
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: name both differences in the examples; the rate at the limit
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: follow the Budget posts on main
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: drop the rate for the single step at the limit
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: review fixes from Max Ghenis and David Trimmer
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: publication time 18:46
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: drop "brings no gain" (Max's second option)
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: the OBR's split of the Treasury figure; second-pass review points
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: publication time 20:39
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: the OBR's certified figure first
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: "About half" without the 51% (Max's suggestion)
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: "exceeds" for "is above" (Max's style rule)
  
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- Carer's Allowance taper post: active voice throughout (Max's style rule)
  
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