Apply take-up rate to income-based ESA

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Apply take-up rate to income-based ESA #329

Open MaxGhenis opened 2 years ago

MaxGhenis commented 2 years ago

Per https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/income-related-benefits-estimates-of-take-up-financial-year-2018-to-2019 income-based ESA take-up is tracked the same as Income Support (currently 90%)

MaxGhenis commented 2 years ago

Infeasible since income-based ESA is taken as reported, and if we simulated it, it would have to be conditional on receipt.

MaxGhenis commented 2 years ago

Actually @nikhilwoodruff could you help me understand why this would differ from income-based JSA, which does consider take-up?

https://github.com/PolicyEngine/openfisca-uk/blob/1f2a48cba55b4620ade6c6ee8267aaf30e08429f/openfisca_uk/variables/finance/benefit/family/JSA_income.py#L63-L74

nikhilwoodruff commented 2 years ago

OK, had another look here and I was wrong earlier - we don't need to condition on employment, the eligibility conditions are fully simulatible - UKMOD does it.