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Summary

Add Scottish Child Payment rates and baby boost totals from 2026-27 to 2030-31 per Scottish Fiscal Commission forecasts, with CPI uprating for projections beyond 2030-31.

SFC Forecast Values

£ per week 2026-27 2027-28 2028-29 2029-30 2030-31
Scottish Child Payment 28.20 28.85 29.45 30.05 30.65
New child under one premium - 11.15 11.35 11.60 11.85
Total payment for child under one 28.20 40.00 40.80 41.65 42.50

Changes

Parameters

  • gov/social_security_scotland/scottish_child_payment/amount.yaml:

    • Added rates for 2026-27 through 2030-31
    • Added CPI uprating metadata
    • Added SFC reference
  • gov/contrib/scotland/scottish_child_payment/under_one.yaml:

    • Added totals for 2027-28 through 2030-31
    • Added CPI uprating metadata
    • Added SFC reference

Tests

  • Added unit tests for 2026, 2027, 2028 SCP rates
  • Updated baby bonus tests to match SFC forecast values

References

Test plan

  • Run existing SCP tests to ensure no regressions
  • Verify rate tests pass for 2026-2028
  • Verify baby bonus tests pass with updated forecast values

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vahid-ahmadi and others added 4 commits January 20, 2026 12:14
- Add SCP 2026-27 rate of £28.20/week (effective 2026-04-01) per
  Scottish Fiscal Commission forecasts
- Enable CPI uprating for SCP base amount parameter
- Enable CPI uprating for SCP baby boost under-1 total parameter
- Add reference to Scottish Fiscal Commission January 2026 forecasts
- Add unit test for 2026 rate

Reference: Scottish Fiscal Commission - Scotland's Economic and Fiscal
Forecasts January 2026
https://fiscalcommission.scot/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Scotlands-Economic-and-Fiscal-Forecasts-January-2026-revised-13-01-2026.pdf

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update parameters with explicit Scottish Fiscal Commission forecast values:

Scottish Child Payment base rate:
- 2026-27: £28.20
- 2027-28: £28.85
- 2028-29: £29.45
- 2029-30: £30.05
- 2030-31: £30.65

Under-1 total:
- 2027-28: £40.00
- 2028-29: £40.80
- 2029-30: £41.65
- 2030-31: £42.50

Update tests to match SFC forecast values.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move changelog entry from changelog.yaml to changelog_entry.yaml per
project conventions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove extra blank lines per updated Black style guide.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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policyengine bot commented Jan 20, 2026

I ran into an issue:

Claude Code failed (exit 1): Credit balance is too low

@vahid-ahmadi vahid-ahmadi merged commit dd1eacb into main Jan 20, 2026
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@vahid-ahmadi vahid-ahmadi deleted the feat/scp-2026-rates-and-cpi-uprating branch January 20, 2026 12:32
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