diff --git a/changelog.d/fix-benefit-cap-earnings-statutory-pay.fixed.md b/changelog.d/fix-benefit-cap-earnings-statutory-pay.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c95b55bb01
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+++ b/changelog.d/fix-benefit-cap-earnings-statutory-pay.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Stop Hypothesis drawing literal constants from policyengine_uk's own modules in tests, so pull request checks (source tree) and Release test (installed wheel) generate the same property-test examples (#2397).
diff --git a/policyengine_uk/tests/conftest.py b/policyengine_uk/tests/conftest.py
index e0b262a08c..b7521b14e0 100644
--- a/policyengine_uk/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/policyengine_uk/tests/conftest.py
@@ -152,8 +152,34 @@ def pytest_collection_modifyitems(config, items):
 _threshold_before = None
 
 
+def _ignore_hypothesis_local_constants():
+    """Stop Hypothesis drawing literal constants from policyengine_uk's code.
+
+    Hypothesis biases its draws with literals from modules it counts as local,
+    and it does not count anything under site-packages. Run from the source
+    tree, policyengine_uk's modules are local; run from the installed wheel
+    (Release test), they are not. The same derandomized seed then generates
+    different examples in pull request checks and in Release test, so a
+    failure can appear only at release (issue #2397). With no local constants,
+    both draw the same examples. test_hypothesis_environment.py checks this
+    still takes effect.
+    """
+    from hypothesis.internal.conjecture import providers
+
+    if not hasattr(providers, "_get_local_constants"):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "hypothesis.internal.conjecture.providers._get_local_constants no "
+            "longer exists; update _ignore_hypothesis_local_constants for this "
+            "Hypothesis version."
+        )
+    no_local_constants = providers.Constants()
+    providers._get_local_constants = lambda: no_local_constants
+    providers.CONSTANTS_CACHE.cache.clear()
+
+
 def pytest_configure(config):
     global _threshold_before
+    _ignore_hypothesis_local_constants()
     _owners_at_start.update(_variable_module_owners())
     _threshold_before = gc.get_threshold()
     gc.set_threshold(GC_FIRST_GENERATION_THRESHOLD, *_threshold_before[1:])
diff --git a/policyengine_uk/tests/test_hypothesis_environment.py b/policyengine_uk/tests/test_hypothesis_environment.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dd382b1ba4
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+++ b/policyengine_uk/tests/test_hypothesis_environment.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""Hypothesis draws the same examples from the source tree and the wheel.
+
+conftest.py stops Hypothesis drawing literal constants from local modules,
+which it collects from the source tree but not from an installed wheel
+(issue #2397). This fails if a Hypothesis upgrade bypasses that.
+"""
+
+from hypothesis.internal.conjecture import providers
+
+# Imported so its modules are loaded, as in any test that uses the model: in
+# a source checkout they are local modules with many literal constants.
+import policyengine_uk  # noqa: F401
+
+
+def test_hypothesis_draws_no_constants_from_local_modules():
+    # Read the pool the way Hypothesis's own provider does.
+    local_constants = providers.HypothesisProvider(None)._local_constants
+    assert len(local_constants) == 0