Count UC carer awards for severe disability and Scottish CTR premiums

changelog.d/2120.fixed.md

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+The model now counts a carer's Universal Credit award with the carer element, where the award comes to at least one penny, when deciding the severe disability premium and the Pension Credit severe disability addition, and in Scotland's working-age council tax reduction it counts such an award for the carer premium from 1 April 2022 (#2120, #2124).

policyengine_uk/parameters/gov/local_authorities/scotland/council_tax_reduction/working_age/carer_premium_counts_uc_carer_element.yaml

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+description: Whether Scottish councils pay the working-age Council Tax Reduction carer premium to an applicant or partner whose award of Universal Credit includes the carer element, as well as on entitlement to Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment.
+values:
+  2013-04-01: false
+  2022-04-01: true
+metadata:
+  unit: bool
+  period: year
+  label: Scottish working-age Council Tax Reduction carer premium counts the Universal Credit carer element
+  reference:
+    - title: The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 Sch. 1 para. 6(1)(c)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/249/schedule/1/paragraph/6
+    - title: The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2021 reg. 1 (in force 1 April 2022)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/249/regulation/1
+    - title: The Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012 Sch. 1 para. 14 (persons under pension age, to 31 March 2022)
+      href: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/303/schedule/1/paragraph/14/2021-04-01