Add Wyoming LIHEAP regular heating assistance

changelog.d/wy-liheap-wave2b.added.md

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+Add Wyoming LIEAP (wy_lieap): FY2026 regular heating benefit from the published fuel cost standards with the 60% state median income test.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/earned_income_min_age.yaml

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+description: Wyoming counts earnings from people at or above this age under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# Follows FY2026 plan section 1.9, which leaves the earned income of a child
+# under 18 unchecked; rule 8(a)(ii)(A) exempts only the earnings of a child
+# under 14 or of a full-time student under 18.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 18
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP minimum age for countable earnings
+  reference:
+    - title: "FY2026 State Plan, section 1.9"
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=6
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)(ii)(A)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/earned_sources.yaml

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+description: Wyoming counts these nonnegative earnings sources for adults under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01:
+    - employment_income
+    - self_employment_income
+    - sstb_self_employment_income
+    - farm_operations_income
+    - partnership_s_corp_income
+
+# Existing net business inputs approximate the allowed business-expense rules.
+# No additional expense deduction is applied to amounts already reported net.
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP earned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "FY2026 State Plan, section 1.9 #page 5-6"
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=5
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-3(w)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-3
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/fpg_year_lag.yaml

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+description: Wyoming uses the federal poverty guideline from this many years before the modeled fiscal year for the veterans exclusion and the federal income floor under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# Annual FY2026 represents the season starting in October 2025; use the
+# guideline at season start. Earlier and later policy remains unverified.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 1
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP poverty guideline year lag
+  reference:
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)(ii)(S)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8
+    - title: "FY2026 State Plan, fiscal-year dates"
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=2

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/gift_monthly_threshold.yaml

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+description: Wyoming excludes gifts at or below this monthly amount under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 30
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: month
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP monthly gift threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)(ii)(D)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/interest_monthly_threshold.yaml

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+description: Wyoming counts the full monthly interest income above this amount under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 30
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: month
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP monthly interest threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)(i)(A)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/unearned_sources.yaml

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+description: Wyoming counts these nonnegative unearned income sources before separate Social Security, interest, gifts and veterans adjustments under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01:
+    - ssi
+    - pension_income
+    - military_retirement_income
+    - retirement_distributions
+    - railroad_benefits
+    - survivor_benefits
+    - total_unemployment_compensation
+    - workers_compensation
+    - disability_benefits
+    - general_assistance
+    - alimony_income
+    - rental_income
+    - farm_rent_income
+    - estate_income
+    - ordinary_dividend_income
+
+# TANF and child support received are excluded under the FY2026 plan.
+# Adopted section 8(a)(ii)(L) excludes lump sums despite the plan's checked
+# lump-sum box. Refunds, tax credits, balances and settlements are not added.
+# Generic annual sources (including retirement and Social Security) cannot
+# identify embedded lump sums or exempt reimbursements. Supply adjusted
+# countable income directly for those cases. No new subtype input is added.
+# Regular disability/worker/survivor income approximates nonexempt receipts;
+# pension_income already includes annuities. No duplicate pension components.
+# military_retirement_income adds retirement pay and survivor annuities.
+# Social Security is counted in the formula, net of the Medicare Part B
+# premium deducted from it (rules 8(a)(ii)(U)).
+# Contract payments and royalties lack dedicated inputs and are not imputed.
+# wy_ssp is left out because rule 8(a)(ii)(U) exempts "The optional State
+# Medicaid Supplement Benefit", the $20 State Supplemental Payment that
+# Wyoming EOM M1804 pays to receive federal match for Medicaid.
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP unearned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "FY2026 State Plan, section 1.9 #page 5-6"
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=5
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/income/veterans_fpg_rate.yaml

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+description: Wyoming excludes veterans disability benefits up to this share of the federal poverty guideline under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# Modeling assumptions: one household-size exclusion per SPM unit and
+# total veterans_benefits as the proxy for service-connected disability income.
+# The rule does not settle multiple recipients, and the proxy can exclude
+# other VA benefits that the service-connected rule does not cover.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 1
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP veterans income exclusion rate
+  reference:
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-8(a)(ii)(S)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/payment/entitlement_fraction.yaml

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+description: Wyoming applies these modeled entitlement fractions by household income relative to the income limit under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# Table 1 prints rows "0 - .20", ".21- .25", ... ".86 - .99" and "1.00 +".
+# Each threshold is the printed start of its row, so a ratio exactly at a
+# start takes that row's fraction and a ratio of 1.00 or more takes zero.
+# A ratio between printed rows takes the earlier row (.205 takes the
+# "0 - .20" fraction), as if truncated to two decimals; the matrix gives no
+# rounding instruction.
+# The formula compares equivalent income ceilings at the precision of stored
+# monetary inputs.
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: -.inf
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.8
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.21
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.75
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.26
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.7
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.31
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.65
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.36
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.6
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.41
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.55
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.46
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.5
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.51
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.45
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.56
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.4
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.61
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.35
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.66
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.3
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.71
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.25
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.76
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.2
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.81
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.15
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 0.86
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0.1
+  - threshold:
+      2025-10-01: 1
+    amount:
+      2025-10-01: 0
+
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: /1
+  amount_unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP entitlement fraction
+  reference:
+    - title: FY2026 Benefit Matrix, visible Table 1 on all fuel worksheets
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/WY_BenefitMatrix_2026.xlsx
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-10(c)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-10

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/payment/fuel_cost.yaml

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+description: Wyoming uses these seasonal primary fuel cost standards under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# Exact source cells retain electricity and natural-gas decimals.
+# KEROSENE takes the heating oil standard: rule 3(hh) lists diesel and oil
+# fuel types, the oil worksheet is "Diesel Heating Oil", and heating_expense
+# reads a kerosene bill as fuel_oil_expense.
+# SOLAR takes the electricity standard because heating_expense reads a solar
+# home's bill as its grid electricity bill.
+# OTHER takes the wood standard as the closest published worksheet. DFS pays
+# unregulated and other fuel types (plan section 2.3; DFS LIEAP page) but
+# publishes standards only for the six worksheets.
+UNSPECIFIED:
+  2025-10-01: 0
+ELECTRICITY:
+  2025-10-01: 1_712.997
+NATURAL_GAS:
+  2025-10-01: 1_550.85
+FUEL_OIL:
+  2025-10-01: 2_640
+KEROSENE:
+  2025-10-01: 2_640
+PROPANE:
+  2025-10-01: 1_300
+WOOD:
+  2025-10-01: 1_225
+COAL:
+  2025-10-01: 525
+SOLAR:
+  2025-10-01: 1_712.997
+OTHER:
+  2025-10-01: 1_225
+NONE:
+  2025-10-01: 0
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP seasonal fuel cost standard
+  breakdown:
+    - heating_type
+  reference:
+    - title: FY2026 Benefit Matrix, Coal H10, Heating Oil H10, Electric H10, Natural Gas H10, Propane F9, Wood H9
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/WY_BenefitMatrix_2026.xlsx
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-3(hh)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-3
+    - title: FY2026 State Plan, section 2.3
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=9
+    - title: Wyoming DFS, Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIEAP)
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/assistance-programs/home-utilities-energy-assistance/low-income-energy-assistance-program-lieap/
+    - title: Wyoming DFS, About LIEAP handout (September 24, 2026)
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-0924-LIEAP-About-handout.pdf#page=1

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/payment/holdback_rate.yaml

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+description: Wyoming withholds this share of the scheduled benefit under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 0.1
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP benefit holdback rate
+  reference:
+    - title: "FY2026 Benefit Matrix, visible Table 1 on all six fuel worksheets"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/benefits-matricies/WY_BenefitMatrix_2026.xlsx

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/payment/minimum_payment.yaml

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+description: Wyoming does not authorize payments below this amount under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# This is a payment cutoff, not an amount to raise a smaller award to.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 10
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP minimum authorized payment
+  reference:
+    - title: 049-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-10(d)
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/wyoming/agency-049/subagency-0024/chapter-1/049-1-Wyo-Code-R-SSSS-1-10

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wy/dfs/lieap/smi_rate.yaml

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+description: Wyoming uses this share of state median income for its ordinary income limit under the Low Income Energy Assistance Program.
+# The FY2026 plan uses 60% SMI for every household size. W.S. 42-2-501(c)
+# requires eligibility up to the lesser of 215% FPG or 60% of state median
+# household income, read here as a coverage minimum that a 60% SMI limit
+# always meets. 2017 SF0063 replaced "greater" with "lesser" after a 2016 DFS
+# request to drop the 215% clause; rules 3(oo) and 7(a)(ii) date from the
+# earlier "greater of" text. Federal 110% FPG income protection is applied
+# separately.
+values:
+  2025-10-01: 0.6
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Wyoming LIEAP state median income rate
+  reference:
+    - title: "FY2026 State Plan, section 2.1"
+      href: https://dfs.wyo.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FFY2026-LIEAP-State-Model-Plan.pdf#page=8
+    - title: "Wyoming Statutes, Title 42, section 42-2-501(c)-(d) #page 34-35"
+      href: https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title42.pdf#page=34
+    - title: "2017 Wyo. Sess. Laws, SF0063 (Enrolled Act 43), amending W.S. 42-2-501(c) #page 7-8"
+      href: https://wyoleg.gov/2017/Enroll/SF0063.pdf#page=7

policyengine_us/programs.yaml

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     category: Benefits
     agency: HHS
     status: partial
-    coverage: AR, AL, AZ, DC, GA, Riverside County, MA, FL, IL, IA, IN, KS, KY, MD, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, SD, RI, TX, VA, WA
+    coverage: AR, AL, AZ, DC, GA, Riverside County, MA, FL, IL, IA, IN, KS, KY, MD, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, SD, RI, TX, VA, WA, WY
     state_implementations:
       - state: AL
         status: partial
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         parameter_prefix: gov.states.wa.commerce.liheap
         verified_years: "2026"
         notes: FY2026 regular heating from reported annual heating costs, with the $250 minimum when heat is included in rent. Crisis, cooling, weatherization and equipment assistance are out of scope.
+      - state: WY
+        status: partial
+        name: Wyoming LIEAP
+        full_name: Wyoming Low Income Energy Assistance Program
+        variable: wy_lieap
+        parameter_prefix: gov.states.wy.dfs.lieap
+        verified_years: "2026"
+        notes: FY2026 regular heating from the published fuel cost standards. Crisis, cooling, weatherization and equipment assistance are out of scope.
 
   # --- SSA programs ---
   - id: ssi