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Add Nevada optional state supplementation for 2026 - #10001

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Nevada's optional SSI supplement was missing from PolicyEngine-US. Add nv_oss with verified 2026 state-only rates for independent living, another person's household, and state-certified domiciliary care. Reuse the federal SSI eligibility, income exclusions, resources, and couple calculations; add Nevada's care-setting distinctions and payment tables.

The calculation includes mixed-category couples, spouse-to-spouse deeming, cent rounding, and the $1 minimum positive payment. It permits state-only payments after federal SSI is exhausted: for example, an aged individual with $1,030 monthly Social Security has $1,010 countable income, receives no federal SSI, and receives $20.40 Nevada OSS. Add the supplement to household/SPM benefit totals and SNAP unearned income.

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The registry marks Nevada as partial, verified for 2026. This implements optional supplementation; it does not implement individualized minimum-income protection for recipients converted in December 1973. It inherits the existing federal SSI eligibility and income framework. Earlier years use parameter backfilling and are unverified historical estimates; no historical rate coverage is claimed.

Test plan

  • 69 Nevada YAML cases: every published individual/couple rate, age and resource boundaries, income phaseout, state-only payments, minimums and rounding, spouse deeming, facility exclusions, multiple households, and annual benefit/SNAP integration. Expected rates come from SSA's table; income cases show independent arithmetic.
  • 169 existing federal SSI and SNAP state-supplement tests passed.
  • 650 parameter/registry tests passed; 10 skipped.
  • Existing default-dataset microsimulation test passed for 2024–2026 (1,000-household subsample).
  • make format and git diff --check.
  • Changelog fragment in changelog.d/.

axiom: needed

hua7450 and others added 3 commits October 7, 2026 16:26
- Gate the supplement on SSI take-up, as every other batch supplement does
- Key the one-third reduction on the federal living arrangement
- Add nv_oss to HUD income; shorten the programs.yaml note
- Make minimum_payment.yaml identical to the other batch PRs; normalize payment YAML
- Lowercase POMS anchors; document the couple-split limitation
- Add take-up and household-of-another deeming cases

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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hua7450 marked this pull request as ready for review October 13, 2026 08:14

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