Weekly policyengine-us update

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Summary

Automated weekly update of policyengine-us.

Related to #1178

Version Updates

Package	Old Version	New Version
policyengine_us	1.663.0	1.687.0

What Changed (policyengine_us 1.663.0 → 1.687.0)

Added

• Add TANF max benefit standard variables for AZ, CA, CT, FL, HI, KS, NY, and VT following CBPP/WRD research conventions for cross-state comparison.
• Implement Washington State Supplementary Payment for SSI recipients.
• State universal free school meal programs in CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM, NY, and VT.
• Implement Washington's Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP), including the standard ECEAP eligibility for ages 3-5, Birth to Three ECEAP eligibility for children below age 3, and per-slot benefit values.
• Added an explicit Trustees core threshold reform for long-run TOB analysis scenarios.
• Add CBO-style household income concepts and equivalized variants, including employer-sponsored insurance premiums in market income.
• Added New York TANF home energy, supplemental home energy, and shelter allowance components, and a Vermont Reach Up special housing allowance, so cross-state TANF benefit comparisons match CBPP and the Urban Welfare Rules Database.
• Extended SNAP Heat and Eat always-apply-SUA treatment to 13 additional states and DC (CA, CT, DC, MA, MD, ME, MI, MT, NY, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA).
• Kentucky State Supplementary Payment (SSP) covering Personal Care Home, Community Integration Supplementation, Family Care Home, and Caretaker Services categories.
• Implement Maine State Supplementary Payment (SSP).
• Washington State Family Assistance and Refugee Cash Assistance programs.
• Add a Washington Paid Family and Medical Leave eligibility and maximum benefit calculator.
• Added the Maine millionaire income tax surcharge, affordability payments, and 2026 Property Tax Fairness Credit cap increase.
• Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation.
• Added Michigan State Supplementary Payment (SSP) program.
• Implement Louisiana Optional State Supplement (OSS).
• Connecticut, Nebraska, and North Dakota stillbirth tax provisions effective 2022.
• Added Idaho conformity to the federal enhanced senior deduction through Idaho's qualified business income and federal Schedule 1-A deduction path starting in 2025.
• Add Maine LD 229 income tax bracket expansion reform (3 to 5 brackets).
• Added Basic Health Program (ACA §1331) coverage modeling. Creates a shared gov/hhs/basic_health_program coverage path covering MN MinnesotaCare, NY Essential Plan, OR OHP Bridge (2025+), and DC Healthy DC Plan (2026+). BHP-eligible people are excluded from ACA Premium Tax Credit eligibility, so per-state PTC projections now zero out for BHP enrollees. Eligibility enforces the statutory 133–200% FPL band (250% FPL in NY from 2025). Moves the state adult/parent Medicaid income ceilings back to Medicaid-only levels in BHP states so people above the Medicaid line fall through to BHP rather than silently losing coverage. Refs #8112.
• • Added 2026 ACA lowest-cost bronze plan (lcbp) rating-area premiums and bronze companion variables.
• Add shared CPS tax-unit construction helper rules.
• North Carolina Child and Dependent Care Credit contrib reform (refundable, 30% match of federal credit, 2026+).
• Add Florida Optional State Supplementation (OSS).
• Add Washington millionaires tax (9.9% on income above $1M) and WFTC age expansion (18+) per ESSB 6346. Removes contributed reform since bill is now law.

Changed

• Updated GitHub Actions workflows for Node 24-compatible action runtimes.
• Added runtime metadata with installed policyengine-core identity for bundle validation.
• Improve WIC benefit valuation by assigning detailed federal food packages, updating cash-value benefit amounts, and using WIC-specific countable income.

Fixed

• Aligned CHIP spending and enrollment calibration to FY2024 for 2024 simulations.
• Fixed Hawaii TANF maximum benefit to apply the steady-state mandatory-work 20% Standard of Assistance reduction, updated Kansas TANF to the Group IV non-shared living standard (the most-populous-county convention) so headline benefit values align with cross-state research reporting, and corrected the Vermont Reach Up special housing allowance to pay only the lesser of (housing expenses in excess of the maximum housing allowance) or $90 per Rule 2244.3, replacing the previous flat $90 payout.
• Fix optional senior or disabled Medicaid countable income to apply state-specific disregards within the Medicaid pathway, including Connecticut's unearned-income-specific rule.
• Fix Medicaid MAGI household construction to use person-specific tax-filer and non-filer rules instead of a tax-unit proxy, including child/dependent filing-threshold income treatment.
• Removed the one-time Rhode Island child tax rebate from the ongoing state Child Tax Credits catalog, eliminating a phantom $250 per child value in taxsim state CTC output for 2023 onward.
• Enforced the federal CHIP cost-sharing cap on modeled CHIP premiums.
• Added rules-based Medicaid premium modeling for Michigan Healthy Michigan Plan contributions and Montana HELP premiums.
• Reconciled FLSA overtime regular-rate calculations with annual employment income.
• Fix state benchmark tests affected by modeled Medicare enrollment inputs.
• Split medical expenses into program-specific variables and remove the generic medical out-of-pocket expense aggregate.
• Fix Marketplace selected-plan and net premiums for unsubsidized households.
• Exclude children with employer-sponsored insurance from CHIP eligibility.
• Fix farm operations income, business self-employment tax, and labor supply response inputs.
• Backfilled Medicaid and CHIP income limit parameters to 2018 using official CMS sources, including thresholds stored with the 5 percentage-point MAGI disregard.
• Removed the one-time Connecticut child tax rebate from the ongoing state Child Tax Credits catalog, eliminating a phantom $250 per child value in taxsim state CTC output for 2023-2026.

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