Matthew Katzen

Age pension couple asset test correction

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For a couple, assets are reduced by $3 p/fn for every $1000 of assets over the asset limit for the combined rate. Since `age_pension` calculates pension at the individual level...

Child care subsidy

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Child Care Benefit stopped on 1 July 2018 and is now the Child Care Subsidy. https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/services/centrelink/child-care-benefit https://www.education.gov.au/child-care-subsidy-1 Main differences are that it now has more income bracket reductions, whereas before...

Now that we are creating functions that take parameters from parent functions we need to make sure that all functions contain the relevant parameters and that the names are consistent....

Fortnightly to annual conversion

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Some payments convert fortnightly payments to annual payments by multiplying by 364/14 (=26), whereas others multiply by 365/14 (=26.0714). e.g. FTB is *365/14