I’m soon going to have to change the subhead of the blog, when Royal Assent is given, but it means that I’m now going to start the really detailed work.

As the draft and final regulations appear, I’ll be building them into our Future Benefits Model (FFBM) and assessing the impact that they will have over the next five years. As these regulations will be subject to debate and positive agreement, the modelling will hopefully inform that process. To help this, I’d be very grateful for suggestions of realistic case types to use; figures around housing costs, earnings, childcare and family types will help to put examples into a more real context in a more local setting.

Feel free to post anonymised figures, or email them to me directly, and I’ll start creating a library of them with comparisons of current scheme and future scheme assessments year-by-year.