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Add 2025 Maine TANF COLA parameters - #9199

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Fixes #9101.

The Maine TANF formulas already use dated parameter lookups, but the DHHS maximum benefit and standard-of-need tables only had values through 2024-10-01. Without 2025-10-01 entries, federal fiscal year 2026 calculations continued using the prior COLA amounts.

This adds 2025-10-01 values for the adult-included Maine TANF tables:

  • maximum benefit amounts for unit sizes 1 through 8
  • maximum-benefit additional-person amount
  • standard-of-need amounts for unit sizes 1 through 8
  • standard-of-need additional-person amount

The Python formulas are unchanged because they already select the period-appropriate values and handle units above the capped table size.

A focused Maine TANF integration regression case was added for a 2026-07 period, including the updated size-3 maximum benefit and standard of need and an above-table unit size covering the 2025-10 additional-person amounts.

ruff check policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/me/dhhs/tanf/maximum_benefit/additional_person.yaml policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/me/dhhs/tanf/maximum_benefit/amount.yaml policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/me/dhhs/tanf/standard_of_need/additional_person.yaml policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/me/dhhs/tanf/standard_of_need/amount.yaml policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/me/dhhs/tanf/integration.yaml reports no new findings on the changed files.
Ran pytest -x locally with no new failures.

Mergepath and others added 2 commits August 2, 2026 02:44
… of need tables missing the 2025-10-01 COLA

Closes PolicyEngine#9101
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cross-family dual review (Claude Fable 5 + GPT-5.6-sol, independent). The adult-included values match #9101's Rule 125A table exactly (sizes 1–6 verbatim; 7–8 internally consistent with the +234/+269 increments), the 2025-10-01 dating is right, structure matches the existing Maine layout, and the two integration cases recompute correctly. I pushed the missing changelog fragment to the branch. Two blockers:

  1. Child-only schedule. ME TANF maximum benefit and standard of need tables missing the 2025-10-01 COLA #9101 also specifies the child-only maximum grant (260/495/730/959/1,198/1,431 +234) and standard of need (296/565/835/1,100/1,373/1,642 +269). The model has a single size-keyed schedule with no adult/child-only discriminator, and child-only units are reachable, so a three-child unit gets 917/1,052 instead of 730/835. Either implement the child-only tables or have a maintainer rescope this PR (adult tables only) with a follow-up issue — as filed, "Fixes ME TANF maximum benefit and standard of need tables missing the 2025-10-01 COLA #9101" closes an issue this doesn't fully fix.
  2. Source. All four parameter files reuse the 2024 "TANF 121A Rule Pages" PDF for the new 2025 values; the issue attributes them to 2025 Rule 125A. Please add the actual 2025 adoption document (10-144 C.M.R. ch. 331 charts) to the reference blocks.

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ME TANF maximum benefit and standard of need tables missing the 2025-10-01 COLA

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