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Include the Scottish devolved disability benefits in the LHA size-criteria benefit lists #2041
Description
The LHA size-criteria benefit lists name only DWP benefits:
gov.dwp.LHA.overnight_care_benefits, the overnight care bedroom, added in Count other families' children and add the foster and overnight-care bedrooms in the LHA size criteria #2016;gov.dwp.LHA.shared_accommodation_exception_benefits, the UC shared accommodation exception.
The law also names the Scottish devolved equivalents:
| Provision | Devolved benefits listed |
|---|---|
| UC Regs 2013 Sch 4 para 12(3)(a) (overnight care) and 12(6A)(a) (disabled person) | child disability payment (care component, middle or highest rate); Scottish adult disability living allowance (care, highest or middle); pension age disability payment; adult disability payment (daily living, standard or enhanced) |
| UC Sch 4 para 29(5) (shared accommodation exception) | child disability payment; Scottish adult DLA; adult disability payment |
| HB Regs 2006 reg 2(1), "person who requires overnight care" and "member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom" | all four |
policyengine-uk has no variables for these benefits. A Scottish recipient counts only where the data records them as DLA, PIP or attendance allowance.
Task
- Check how the enhanced FRS records ADP, CDP, PADP and Scottish adult DLA for Scottish respondents. The FRS benefit codes may differ by year.
- Either add variables for them and include them in both lists (and the HB "cannot share" definitions), or document how the DWP variables stand in for them.
- Cover the other provisions that list the same benefits, for example the UC carer element and the legacy premiums.
Raised in the review of #2016 (round 1, F8).
Activity
MaxGhenis commentedon Oct 5, 2026
The Council Tax Reduction non-dependant exemption lists the same devolved benefits, so it belongs in this issue's "other provisions" too. No deduction is made for any non-dependant where the applicant or partner is blind or receives one of the listed benefits:
The model reads this in
council_tax_reduction_applicant_has_non_dep_exemption(per claiming family with #2015). It checks blindness, attendance allowance, DLA care, PIP daily living and AFIP only, because the model has no variable for the devolved payments. Main had the same gap incouncil_tax_reduction_household_has_non_dep_exemption.Raised by @vahid-ahmadi in the review of #2015 (item 4).