Add Georgia LIHEAP regular heating assistance

changelog.d/ga-liheap.added.md

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+Add Georgia LIHEAP household, income, ordinary eligibility, and regular heating benefits, with documented categorical and payment-table coverage limits.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/hhs/liheap/fpg_floor.yaml

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+description: The US Department of Health and Human Services limits income-based exclusion to households with income of at least this percentage of the poverty guideline under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Pub. L. 98-558, section 605(a)(2), added the floor for fiscal year 1986 and later.
+values:
+  1985-10-01: 1.1
+metadata:
+  period: year
+  unit: /1
+  label: LIHEAP poverty guideline income floor
+  reference:
+    - title: 42 U.S.C. 8624(b)(2)(B)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/8624

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/eligibility/fpg_year_lag.yaml

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+description: Georgia uses the poverty guidelines from this many years before the model year for the federal income floor under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# HHS makes each January's guidelines mandatory for LIHEAP from the next
+# October 1, so model period 2026 (FY2026) uses the 2025 guidelines and 2025
+# (FY2025) the 2024 guidelines. Georgia's own limit uses state median income.
+values:
+  2024-10-01: 1
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP poverty guideline year lag
+  reference:
+    - title: LIHEAP IM 2025-02, Attachment 2, poverty guidelines for mandatory use in FY26
+      href: https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ocs/COMM_LIHEAP_IM2025-02_FPGSte-Table_Att2.pdf#page=1
+    - title: LIHEAP IM 2024-02, Attachment 2, poverty guidelines for mandatory use in FY25
+      href: https://acf.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ocs/COMM_LIHEAP_IM%202024-02_Att2FPGTables_States.pdf#page=1

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/eligibility/smi_rate.yaml

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+description: Georgia limits annual income to this fraction of state median income under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 0.6
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP state median income rate
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia FY2025 LIHEAP State Plan, section 2.1
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2025/state-plans/GA_Plan_2025.pdf#page=8
+    - title: Georgia FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, section 2.1
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/GA_Plan_2026.pdf#page=8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/income/minimum_age.yaml

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+description: Georgia excludes the income of household members below this age under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 18
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP countable income minimum age
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia LIHEAP Policy Manual, January 2022, section 1200.2
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/sites/default/files/webfiles/docs/2023/manuals/GA_PolicyManual_2023.pdf#page=62

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/income/monthly_interest_disregard.yaml

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+description: Georgia excludes this amount of monthly interest income under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 25
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: month
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP monthly interest disregard
+  reference:
+    - title: "Georgia LIHEAP Policy Manual, January 2022, section 1200.7 (first interest amount disregarded) #page 66,69"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/sites/default/files/webfiles/docs/2023/manuals/GA_PolicyManual_2023.pdf#page=66

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/income/sources/household.yaml

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+description: Georgia uses these household-level benefits as countable income under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01:
+    # The tanf aggregate includes ga_tanf and applies take-up; ga_tanf alone is
+    # the entitlement and would count benefits a nonrecipient could get.
+    - tanf
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP household income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, section 1.9 (TANF counted)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/GA_Plan_2026.pdf#page=6

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/income/sources/person.yaml

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+description: Georgia uses these sources as countable income of adult household members under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Interest is calculated separately after its disregard. TANF is counted once
+# at SPM-unit level. Each source is floored at zero in the formula, so a loss
+# in one source cannot offset another; net business inputs have no extra
+# deduction.
+values:
+  2025-10-01:
+    - employment_income
+    - self_employment_income
+    - sstb_self_employment_income
+    - farm_operations_income
+    - partnership_s_corp_income
+    - total_unemployment_compensation
+    # Social Security is counted in the formula, net of the Medicare Part B
+    # premium.
+    - ssi
+    - pension_income
+    # Military retirement pay is a separate input from the pension inputs that
+    # pension_income adds, so both are listed; a household reports the amount
+    # in one or the other.
+    - military_retirement_pay
+    # Manual application item 12 groups Railroad Retirement with Social
+    # Security; only Social Security is netted of the Medicare premium.
+    - railroad_benefits
+    - survivor_benefits
+    - veterans_benefits
+    # Plan vs manual: manual 1200.7 includes "Disability Payment" (page 65) and
+    # "Workers Compensation" (page 68), both paid by insurance companies, while
+    # FY2026 plan 1.9 (page 6) leaves "Insurance payments made directly to the
+    # insured" unchecked. This follows the manual.
+    - disability_benefits
+    - workers_compensation
+    - strike_benefits
+    - general_assistance
+    - rental_income
+    - farm_rent_income
+    - ordinary_dividend_income
+    - capital_gains
+    # Plan vs manual: manual 1200.7 (page 66) includes "Lottery Winnings", while
+    # FY2026 plan 1.9 (page 6) leaves "winnings from lotteries" unchecked. This
+    # follows the manual; the input also covers non-lottery gambling.
+    - gambling_winnings
+    # Manual 1200.7 (page 65) explicitly includes "Contribution/Cash Gift".
+    # The FY2022 plan already left gifts unchecked when this manual was issued;
+    # the same FY2026 checkbox does not establish a later policy change. Follow
+    # the detailed manual, as for lottery and insurance income above.
+    - financial_assistance
+    - alimony_income
+    - child_support_received
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP adult person income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "Georgia LIHEAP Policy Manual, January 2022, sections 1200.1-1200.7 and application item 12 #page 62-69,83"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/sites/default/files/webfiles/docs/2023/manuals/GA_PolicyManual_2023.pdf#page=62
+    - title: "Georgia FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, section 1.9 (current included and excluded sources) #page 5-7"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/GA_Plan_2026.pdf#page=5
+    - title: Georgia FY2022 LIHEAP State Plan, section 1.9 (contemporaneous unchecked gifts, lottery and insurance categories)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/sites/default/files/webfiles/docs/GA_Plan_2022.pdf#page=6

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/payment/base_amount.yaml

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+description: Georgia provides this Level II heating payment by primary fuel under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+electricity:
+  2025-10-01: 400
+natural_gas:
+  2025-10-01: 560
+fuel_oil:
+  2025-10-01: 710
+propane:
+  2025-10-01: 580
+wood:
+  2025-10-01: 400
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP Level II heating payment by fuel
+  propagate_metadata_to_children: true
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2025 income guidelines, step 2 (heating amounts)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2025/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_2025.pdf
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2026 income guidelines, step 2 (heating amounts)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_Heat-Cool_2026.pdf

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/payment/lower_income_limit.yaml

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+description: Georgia limits annual income to this amount by household size for Level I heating payments under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Preserve the published size-four amount. The source does not define these
+# cutoffs as a fixed percentage of current federal poverty or median income.
+1:
+  2024-10-01: 12_995
+  2025-10-01: 13_589
+2:
+  2024-10-01: 16_993
+  2025-10-01: 17_770
+3:
+  2024-10-01: 20_992
+  2025-10-01: 21_952
+4:
+  2024-10-01: 24_355
+  2025-10-01: 25_469
+5:
+  2024-10-01: 28_989
+  2025-10-01: 30_315
+6:
+  2024-10-01: 32_987
+  2025-10-01: 34_496
+7:
+  2024-10-01: 33_737
+  2025-10-01: 35_280
+8:
+  2024-10-01: 34_487
+  2025-10-01: 36_064
+9:
+  2024-10-01: 35_236
+  2025-10-01: 36_848
+10:
+  2024-10-01: 35_986
+  2025-10-01: 37_632
+11:
+  2024-10-01: 36_736
+  2025-10-01: 38_416
+12:
+  2024-10-01: 37_486
+  2025-10-01: 39_200
+13:
+  2024-10-01: 38_235
+  2025-10-01: 39_984
+14:
+  2024-10-01: 38_985
+  2025-10-01: 40_768
+15:
+  2024-10-01: 39_735
+  2025-10-01: 41_552
+16:
+  2024-10-01: 40_485
+  2025-10-01: 42_336
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP Level I annual income limit by household size
+  breakdown:
+    - range(1, 17)
+  propagate_metadata_to_children: true
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2025 income guidelines, step 1 (inclusive Level I upper limits)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2025/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_2025.pdf
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2026 income guidelines, step 1 (inclusive Level I upper limits)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_Heat-Cool_2026.pdf

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/payment/lower_income_uplift.yaml

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+description: Georgia provides this additional heating payment to households in income Level I under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Inferred: every printed Level I heating amount is the Level II amount plus
+# $100 on the FY2025 and FY2026 matrices; the matrices print both columns,
+# not this rule. Encode the printed Level I column if a matrix breaks the pattern.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 100
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP lower income heating payment increase
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2025 income guidelines, step 2 (difference between Level I and Level II heating amounts)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2025/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_2025.pdf
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2026 income guidelines, step 2 (difference between Level I and Level II heating amounts)
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_Heat-Cool_2026.pdf

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ga/dfcs/liheap/payment/maximum_table_size.yaml

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+description: Georgia sets Level I income thresholds through this household size under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 16
+metadata:
+  unit: person
+  period: year
+  label: Georgia LIHEAP maximum published benefit table size
+  reference:
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2025 income guidelines, step 1
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2025/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_2025.pdf
+    - title: Georgia Benefit Matrix, FY2026 income guidelines, step 1
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/GA_BenefitMatrix_Heat-Cool_2026.pdf

policyengine_us/programs.yaml

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     category: Benefits
     agency: HHS
     status: partial
-    coverage: DC, Riverside County, MA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OR, TX
+    coverage: DC, GA, Riverside County, MA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OR, TX
     state_implementations:
+      - state: GA
+        status: partial
+        name: Georgia LIHEAP
+        full_name: Georgia Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
+        variable: ga_liheap
+        parameter_prefix: gov.states.ga.dfcs.liheap
+        verified_years: "2025-2026"
+        notes: FY2025-FY2026 regular heating only, with the published fuel matrix and the bundled-utility rental payment. Crisis, cooling, weatherization and equipment assistance are out of scope.
       - state: DC
         status: complete
         name: DC LIHEAP