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Apply Florida TCA $200 and 1/2 disregard to current participants - #10248
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Fla. Stat. 414.095(11)(a) and ESS manual 2420.0315 grant the disregard to a current participant (TCA received in one of the past four months) or to a member whose income after the $90 disregard is below the payment standard. The eligibility variable only checked the income condition; it now also accepts is_tanf_enrolled. 2420.0315 also says the $90 standard disregard is included in the first $200, so the eligible member now has $110 more subtracted after the $90, not $200. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
fl_tca_200_and_half_disregard_eligibleonly checked whether income after the $90 standard disregard is below the payment standard. Fla. Stat. 414.095(11)(a) also grants the disregard to "a current participant in the program". DCF ESS Program Policy Manual 2420.0315 (p. 23) states this as having "been eligible for and received TCA in one of the past four months". So an enrolled unit whose income after $90 was at or above the payment standard lost the disregard and got $0.This PR makes two changes:
is_tanf_enrolled | (income after $90 < payment standard).is_tanf_enrolleddefaults to reported TANF receipt and stands for receipt in the past four months, as in MI, CT, NH and TX.fl_tca_countable_earned_incomesubtracted the whole $200 after the $90, a $290 disregard. It now subtractsfirst_amount - standard_disregard($110) after the $90, then counts half of the rest.Issue example (3 people, $500/month earnings, shelter over $50, enrolled): the payment standard is $303. Countable earnings are ($500 - $200) / 2 = $150, so
fl_tcais $153. On main they are $410 and $0.Tests
fl_tca_200_and_half_disregard_eligible.yamlhas four cases. A current participant above the payment standard is eligible; this case fails on main. The controls are an applicant with the same income (not eligible), an applicant below the standard (eligible), and an applicant at exactly the standard (not eligible).integration.yaml:fl_tca_countable_earned_income.yamlCases 2-6: $290 earnings now count $45 instead of $0.integration.yamlCases 9 and 18.fl_tca_eligible.yaml.policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/fl/dcf/tanf: 81 passed.gov/hhs/tanf: 106 passed.Fixes #9982
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