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parameters relevant to family allowances and the child tax credit. This is normally done by consulting the Parameter Guide. However, the parameters are also listed by category in Appendix A of the printed document. The family allowance parameters are found in the government transfer category and look as follows. Family Allowance FAFLAG Family allowance flag PFACFLAG Use provincial configuration flag All Provinces Except Alberta and Québec STDFA Standard federal family allowance per child Alberta AFAC1 Alberta FA benefit per child aged 0 – 6 AFAC2 Alberta FA benefit per child aged 7 – 11 AFAC3 Alberta FA benefit per child aged 12- 15 AFAC4 Alberta FA benefit per child aged 16- 17 Québec QFFSL Federal family allowance: Quebec configuration QFS Federal supplement per child 12-17 on Quebec family allowance QFPSL Quebec provincial family allowance QAAFAFLAG Availability allowance: supplement to Quebec FA flag QAAFA Quebec availability allowance (supplement) QNBFAFLAG Quebec newborn family allowance flag QNBFA Quebec newborn family allowance Repayment (through tax system) FATBPI Family allowance take-back phase in FATD Family allowance turndown income FARR Family allowance repayment rate And two pages later the child tax credit parameters are listed as follows. Federal Child Tax Credit CTCOPT Federal child tax benefits calculation option CTCPC Child tax credit per child CTCTD Family income child tax credit turn down CTCRR Child tax credit reduction rate CTCERF CTC child care expense reduction fraction CTCREF CTC post-reform rules flag CTCSUP CTC young child supplement CTCTUR CTC take-up rate table CTCINC CTC family income scaling factor The parameters to be changed have been identified but their new values still need to be determined. The elimination of the federal Family Allowance program should pose no problem, since this can be effected by setting all of the relevant parameters to zero. The parameter QFPSL, since it represents an extra Provincial contribution above and beyond the Federal Family Allowance, will be left unchanged. The FAFLAG parameter will not be changed because if it were set to 0 then provincial family allowances in Quebec would not be calculated. Evidently the parameter Introduction and Overview Guide SPSD/M Version 9.2 Page 57
