Add child maintenance planning docs page (#669)#1714
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#669 is filed as a planning issue. Persist the scope in-repo as a "planned: not yet modelled" docs page mirroring the BiK / firm-VAT pattern. The page covers: - the current state: maintenance_income / maintenance_expenses exist as generic inputs deducted from market_income, but do not distinguish child maintenance from spousal and do not encode the UC asymmetry, - the CSJ-identified Universal Credit asymmetry (recipient: full disregard; payer: no deduction) and why that produces a poverty trap for paying parents on UC, - Phase 1: disambiguate inputs into child_maintenance_received and child_maintenance_paid (plus the FRS routing needed in policyengine-uk-data), - Phase 2: fix the UC asymmetry in uc_applicable_income, - Phase 3 (optional): derive the CMS formula itself for reform analysis, with the gross-income-band rate table from SI 2012/2677, - data needs (FRS for inputs, CMS statistics for calibration) and primary references (Child Support Act 1991, the CMS Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012, the gov.uk how-we-work-out PDF, and the CSJ paper).
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docs/book/programs/gov/cms/child-maintenance.mdcovering:maintenance_income/maintenance_expensesinputs flowing throughmarket_incomeand HBAI, but not distinguishing child from spousal maintenance and not encoding the UC asymmetry,child_maintenance_received/child_maintenance_paid(plus the FRS routing needed inpolicyengine-uk-data),uc_applicable_income,Test plan
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