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Set Marriage Allowance take-up rate to HMRC outturn (#368) (#369)
The placeholder 1.0 (100%) overstated Marriage Allowance take-up. HMRC outturn shows ~2.1m claimants of ~4.2m eligible couples (~50%), which means microsimulation overstates the program cost by ~£500m/year. Set the parameter to 0.5 with a House of Commons Library citation. Companion change in PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#1636. Source issue: PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk#623. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Set Marriage Allowance take-up rate to 0.5 (HMRC outturn ~2.1m claimants of ~4.2m eligible couples) instead of the placeholder 1.0, so microsimulation no longer overstates Marriage Allowance cost by ~£500m/year.
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description: Percentage of eligible couples who claim Marriage Allowance.
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description: Share of eligible couples who claim Marriage Allowance. HMRC outturn shows ~2.1m claimants vs ~4.2m eligible (~50% take-up). Read by `datasets/frs.py` to populate `would_claim_marriage_allowance` stochastically per person.
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unit: /1
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label: Marriage Allowance take-up rate
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reference:
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- title: House of Commons Library — Income tax allowances for married couples (SN00870)
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href: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn00870/
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2000-01-01: 1
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2000-01-01: 0.5

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