Add Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance

changelog.d/vt-liheap-wave1d.added.md

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+Add Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance (LIHEAP regular heating) for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 heating seasons.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/eligibility/fpg_rate.yaml

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+description: Vermont limits gross household income to this share of the federal poverty guideline under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# The income limit applies this rate to the whole-dollar monthly guideline
+# (vt_liheap_fpg / 12) and rounds half up to the dollar (size 1: 1.85 x 1,304 =
+# 2,412.40, so $2,412; size 2: 1.85 x 1,763 = 3,261.55, so $3,262). This
+# reproduces all 15 P-2913 amounts for 2025-26 and all 15 DCF amounts for
+# 2026-27 (size 1: 1.85 x 1,330 = 2,460.50, so $2,461). The same rate times the
+# annual guideline caps that amount where it rounds above 185% (size 2 in 2026:
+# 39,127.50 a year, not 3,262 x 12 = 39,144).
+values:
+  2024-06-22: 1.85
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP poverty guideline income limit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: 33 V.S.A. § 2604(a)
+      href: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/33/026/02604
+    - title: Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rule 2913(b)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=38
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2913, Income Guidelines (effective March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2913.pdf
+    - title: Vermont DCF Fuel Assistance Income Guidelines for 2026-2027
+      href: https://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/fuel/income-guidelines

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/fpg_table_size.yaml

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+description: Vermont rounds the monthly poverty guideline of each household size up to this size, and adds the rounded monthly additional-person amount for each person above it, under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# HHS lists the guideline for households of up to eight people, plus an amount for
+# each additional person. P-2913 and P-2914A print monthly dollars for sizes 1-15
+# without stating their derivation. Dividing each listed guideline by 12 and rounding
+# half up to the dollar, then adding the additional-person amount divided by 12 and
+# rounded the same way for each person above eight, reproduces all 165 P-2914A band
+# tops, all 15 P-2913 limits and the 15 DCF 2026-27 limits; this is a numerical
+# inference. Rounding each size's own guideline divided by 12 reproduces only 2 of
+# the 55 band tops for sizes 11-15 (the other 53 by $1-$4).
+values:
+  2025-03-01: 8
+
+metadata:
+  unit: person
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP poverty guideline maximum tabulated household size
+  reference:
+    - title: HHS 2025 Poverty Guidelines, 90 FR 5917
+      href: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-17/pdf/2025-01377.pdf#page=1
+    - title: HHS 2026 Poverty Guidelines, 91 FR 1798
+      href: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-15/pdf/2026-00755.pdf#page=2
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2913, Income Guidelines (effective March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2913.pdf
+    - title: "Vermont DCF Procedure P-2914A, Percentage of Poverty, 2025-2026 #page 1-3"
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2914A.pdf#page=1
+    - title: Vermont DCF Fuel Assistance Income Guidelines for 2026-2027
+      href: https://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/fuel/income-guidelines

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/fpg_year_lag.yaml

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+description: Vermont uses the federal poverty guidelines from this many years before the model year for the income limit and the percentage of poverty under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# P-2913 applies the 2025 guidelines to applications from March 1, 2025 through
+# February 28, 2026, and P-2910 starts the new guidelines each March, so model
+# period 2026 (the 2025-26 heating season) uses the 2025 guidelines and 2027
+# (the 2026-27 season) the 2026 guidelines. Earlier years are unverified backfill.
+values:
+  2025-03-01: 1
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP poverty guideline year lag
+  reference:
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2913, Income Guidelines (effective March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2913.pdf
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2910, Income
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2910.pdf
+    - title: Vermont DCF Fuel Assistance Income Guidelines for 2026-2027
+      href: https://dcf.vermont.gov/esd/fuel/income-guidelines

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/income/child_earnings_age_limit.yaml

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+description: Vermont excludes the earned income of student household members below this age under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2024-06-22: 18
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP child student earnings exclusion age limit
+  reference:
+    - title: Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rule 2912(a)(12)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=34

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/income/sources/earned.yaml

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+description: Vermont uses these sources as earned income under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Rule 2911.3 counts self-employment income, including rent from property a
+# member manages and roomer or boarder payments, under the 3SquaresVT method.
+# The model has only net business income, so each listed source is floored at
+# zero and counted in full; a loss in one source cannot offset another.
+# Under 7 CFR 273.11(a)(2)(ii) a farmer with $1,000 or more of annual gross
+# proceeds offsets a farm loss against other income; with no gross-proceeds
+# input, farm_operations_income is floored like the other sources.
+values:
+  2024-06-22:
+    - employment_income
+    - self_employment_income
+    - sstb_self_employment_income
+    - farm_operations_income
+    # Partnership and S corporation income from a member's own business.
+    - partnership_s_corp_income
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP earned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rules 2910, 2911.1 and 2911.3 #page 25,27,29"
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=25
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2910, Income
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2910.pdf
+    - title: Vermont FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/VT_Plan_2026.pdf#page=6
+    - title: 7 CFR 273.11(a)(2)(ii)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/7/273.11

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/income/sources/unearned.yaml

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+description: Vermont uses these sources as unearned income under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Rule 2911.2(b) items: public assistance (SSI and General Assistance; Reach Up
+# is added once through the SPM-unit tanf aggregate), annuities, pensions and
+# retirement benefits, veterans' and disability benefits, workers' and
+# unemployment compensation, survivors or social security benefits (Social
+# Security counted gross), strike benefits, rental income, child support and
+# alimony, dividends and interest, trust withdrawals and other direct money
+# payments. Each listed source is floored at zero. Royalties, non-excluded scholarships and foster care or
+# difficulty of care payments have no specific inputs.
+values:
+  2024-06-22:
+    - ssi
+    # The state AABD supplement to SSI is public assistance under rule
+    # 2911.2(b)(1).
+    - vt_aabd
+    - general_assistance
+    - pension_income
+    # Railroad Retirement annuities are annuities and retirement benefits under
+    # rule 2911.2(b)(2)-(4).
+    - railroad_benefits
+    # Military retired pay and Survivor Benefit Plan annuities are separate
+    # inputs from the pension inputs that pension_income adds.
+    - military_retirement_income
+    # Retirement account distributions are retirement benefits under rule
+    # 2911.2(b)(4) and a separate input from pension_income.
+    - retirement_distributions
+    - veterans_benefits
+    - disability_benefits
+    - workers_compensation
+    - total_unemployment_compensation
+    - social_security
+    # Survivor benefits other than Social Security survivor benefits.
+    - survivor_benefits
+    - strike_benefits
+    # Rent from property a member manages is self-employment income under rule
+    # 2911.3(a)(1); either way it counts, so it is listed once here.
+    - rental_income
+    - farm_rent_income
+    - child_support_received
+    - alimony_income
+    - interest_income
+    - ordinary_dividend_income
+    - estate_income
+    # Rule 2911.2(b)(16) also counts "all other direct money payments from any
+    # source that can be construed to be a gain or benefit".
+    - miscellaneous_income
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP unearned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rules 2910, 2911.2 and 2911.3 #page 25,27-29"
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=25
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2910, Income
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2910.pdf
+    - title: "Vermont FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9 #page 6-7"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/VT_Plan_2026.pdf#page=6

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/payment/heat_cost_percentage.yaml

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+description: Vermont pays this percentage of the standard heating cost, based on gross income as a share of the federal poverty guideline, under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Rule 2915(b) delegates the percentage of poverty to the P-2914A table of
+# monthly dollar bands. Each threshold after -.inf tops the band below it: the
+# band's monthly dollar top is the threshold times the whole-dollar monthly
+# guideline (vt_liheap_fpg / 12), rounded up to the dollar, and monthly income at
+# or below a top stays in that band (right-closed). This reproduces all 165
+# printed 2025-26 tops for sizes 1-15 (size 1: 0.74 x 1,304 = 964.96, top $965;
+# size 2: 0.74 x 1,763 = 1,304.62, top $1,305). No 2026-27 P-2914A is published;
+# 2027 applies the same construction to the 2026 guideline. Income above the
+# income limit is excluded by eligibility, not here.
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: -.inf
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.9
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 0.74
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.87
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 0.84
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.84
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 0.94
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.81
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.04
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.78
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.14
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.75
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.24
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.72
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.34
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.69
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.44
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.66
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.54
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.33
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.64
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.3
+  - threshold:
+      2024-06-22: 1.74
+    amount:
+      2024-06-22: 0.27
+
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: /1
+  amount_unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP heat cost percentage
+  reference:
+    - title: Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rule 2915(b)-(d)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=42
+    - title: Vermont DCF Procedure P-2915, Heat Cost Percentage Table
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2915.pdf
+    - title: "Vermont DCF Procedure P-2914A, Percentage of Poverty, 2025-2026 #page 1-3"
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Policies%20Procedures%20Guidance/ESD-Procedure-P2914A.pdf#page=1
+    - title: Vermont AHS 2026-2027 Benefits Matrix, Heat Cost Percentage Table
+      href: https://humanservices.vermont.gov/sites/ahsnew/files/documents/2026-2027%20Benefits%20Matrx.pdf#page=1
+    - title: 33 V.S.A. § 2605(a)-(b)
+      href: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/33/026/02605

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/payment/heat_in_rent_minimum.yaml

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+description: Vermont provides at least this annual benefit to households outside subsidized housing whose heat is included in rent under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2024-06-22: 50
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP heat-in-rent minimum benefit
+  reference:
+    - title: Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rule 2914(c)(2)(i)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=40
+    - title: 33 V.S.A. § 2605(e)
+      href: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/33/026/02605

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/vt/dcf/liheap/payment/heat_in_rent_rate.yaml

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+description: Vermont pays this share of the calculated benefit to households outside subsidized housing whose heat is included in rent under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2024-06-22: 0.3
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Vermont LIHEAP heat-in-rent benefit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: Vermont Seasonal Fuel Assistance Rule 2914(c)(2)
+      href: https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DCF/Shared%20Documents/ESD/Rules/2900-Seasonal-Fuel-Assistance.pdf#page=40
+    - title: 33 V.S.A. § 2605(e)
+      href: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/33/026/02605