Issues

• marginal_tax_rate is wrong with long_term_capital_gains on policyengine-core 3.33

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10522 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• SSI spousal deeming does not exclude an ineligible spouse's student earned income (20 CFR 416.1161(a)(27))

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10521 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• New Hampshire FANF: the grant is not rounded down to whole dollars, and grants under $10 are paid (He-W 670.03(b)(3)-(5))

  bughhs/tanfstates/nh
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10517 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Mississippi TANF keeps SSI recipients in the unit and counts their income; MDHS totally disregards SSI recipients

  bughhs/tanfstates/ms
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10516 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Illinois aged, blind and disabled Medicaid: give each applying spouse the $25 exemption and leave out contributions, as for the Medicare Savings Programs

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10515 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Medicare Savings Programs: test a person as a couple only when they are married, not when their SPM unit is

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10514 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• State-funded pregnancy coverage for insured noncitizens who fail the Medicaid immigration test (for example Washington)

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10513 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Iowa (2023+): ia_modified_income adds the QBI deduction back twice

  bugstate-income-taxstates/ia
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10512 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• PA tax forgiveness: a separated filer alone in a SEPARATE tax unit gets the $13,000 married base on their own income

  bugstate-income-taxstates/pa
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10511 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Louisiana (through 2024): la_surviving_spouse_exemption adds $1,000 for any widowed member, on top of the $9,000 surviving-spouse amount

  bugstate-income-taxstates/la
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10510 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Charge Texas, Michigan and Louisiana CHIP premiums only for CHIP children, not pregnancy-only (FCEP) members

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10509 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• 209(b) SSI-recipient Medicaid spenddown omits a parent's medical expenses for a disabled child

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10508 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Medicaid medically needy: the couple limit applies even when SSI deems no spouse income

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10507 · Filter by author hua7450 opened on Oct 27, 2026

• NY Empire State child credit 2018–2022: children under 4 are left out of Worksheet A instead of prorated

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10506 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• California AMT exemption for a child uses the federal 59(j) amount instead of the Schedule P (540) amount ($9,550 vs $9,750 in 2025)

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10505 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• South Carolina TANF and Michigan FIP: whole-dollar rounding next to the $10 minimum is not applied (114-1140(A)(4), BEM 520)

  bughhs/tanfstates/mistates/sc
  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10497 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Kentucky, Hawaii and Vermont TANF dependent care: remaining gaps after #10254 (KY child 13+ and part-time cap, HI applicant hours, VT rounding and participant cap)

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10494 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Wisconsin Works: CMC ignores the other-adult exclusion and ARP ignores the unmarried, no-dependent-child condition (Wis. Stat. 49.148(1m)(a))

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10493 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• North Carolina Work First: non-parent adults, 18-year-olds in high school, and all-SSI children

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10492 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026
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• Parent/caretaker Medicaid limits: 2018-2023 values for TX, FL, MS and WY are rounded shares above each state's dollar standard

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10491 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Mississippi TANF counts a student child's earnings; MDHS disregards them in the gross and net income tests

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10490 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Massachusetts TAFDC: dependent care hours band per earner, 100% disregard per member, grant rounding and the $10 minimum

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10489 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• DC TANF benefit computation: applicant disregards for new eligible units, child care deducted from unearned income, and no rounding down (ESA Policy Manual §§ 6.3, 8.5)

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10488 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• DC TANF work sanction rate rises to 25% from October 2026; D.C. Law 26-55 § 5063 sets October 1, 2027

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10487 · Filter by author PavelMakarchuk opened on Oct 27, 2026

• Standard repayment: Direct Consolidation Loans that entered repayment after June 30, 2006 use the 10-to-30-year term

  PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#10485 · Filter by author DTrim99 opened on Oct 27, 2026