Add Nevada Energy Assistance Program Fixed Annual Credit

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

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+Add Nevada LIHEAP Energy Assistance Program Fixed Annual Credit.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/five_year_bar/child_age_limit.yaml

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+description: Nevada excludes qualified non-citizens below this age threshold from the five-year bar under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 18
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP five-year bar child age limit
+  reference:
+    - title: Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C I
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=22
+    - title: Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C I
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=23

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/five_year_bar/exempt_statuses.yaml

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+description: Nevada excludes these immigration statuses from the five-year bar on qualified non-citizens under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Section 302 C VI exempts refugees, asylees, non-citizens whose deportation is
+# being withheld, Amerasians, Cuban and Haitian entrants and victims of a
+# severe form of trafficking. Amerasians and trafficking victims have no
+# immigration_status value. The federal Medicaid list holds the same four
+# statuses, but this list is sourced to the Nevada manual and kept separate.
+values:
+  2025-07-01:
+    - REFUGEE
+    - ASYLEE
+    - DEPORTATION_WITHHELD
+    - CUBAN_HAITIAN_ENTRANT
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP five-year bar exempt immigration statuses
+  reference:
+    - title: Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C VI
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=23
+    - title: Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C VI
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=23

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/five_year_bar/qualifying_quarters.yaml

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+description: Nevada excludes lawful permanent residents with this threshold of qualifying quarters from the five-year bar under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Section 302 C VIII counts quarters worked by a parent while the person was a
+# child and by a spouse during the marriage, and no quarter after December 31,
+# 1996 in which the person received a federal means-tested public benefit. The
+# snap_alien_qualifying_quarters input holds that 8 U.S.C. 1645 count.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 40
+
+metadata:
+  unit: quarters
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP five-year bar qualifying quarters threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C VIII
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=23
+    - title: Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 302 C VIII
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=23

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/five_year_bar/years.yaml

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+description: Nevada sets the bar on qualified non-citizens to this threshold of years after entry under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Section 302 C makes qualified non-citizens who entered the United States after
+# August 22, 1996 ineligible for the years beginning on the date of entry,
+# unless an exemption applies. Section 302 A I applies the bar to lawful
+# permanent residents.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 5
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP five-year bar duration
+  reference:
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 302 A I and 302 C #page 21-22"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=21
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 302 A I and 302 C #page 21,23"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=21

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/fpg_rate.yaml

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+description: Nevada limits household income to this multiple of the federal poverty guideline under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Appendix A prints annual limits of $23,475 to $81,225 for household sizes
+# 1-8 in SFY2026 (150% of the 2025 guideline) and $23,940 to $83,580 in
+# SFY2027 (2026 guideline). The 110% floor of 42 U.S.C. 8624(b)(2)(B) lies
+# below this limit for every size.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 1.5
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP poverty guideline income limit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: NRS 702.260(3)
+      href: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-702.html#NRS702Sec260
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 701 and 802 and Appendix A #page 43,60,110"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=43
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 701 and 802 and Appendix A #page 43,60,110"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=43
+    - title: Nevada FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 2.1
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/NV_Plan_2026.pdf#page=8
+    - title: Nevada FY2027 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 2.1
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/fy-2027-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-liheap-state-plan.pdf#page=8

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/eligibility/fpg_year_lag.yaml

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+description: Nevada uses the federal poverty guidelines from this many years before the model year for the income limit and the benefit cap income bands under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# The program year is the state fiscal year (July-June). Model period 2026
+# (SFY2026) uses the 2025 guidelines ($15,650 plus $5,500 per added person)
+# and 2027 (SFY2027) the 2026 guidelines ($15,960 plus $5,680), which
+# reproduces both Appendix A income tables. HHS made the 2025 guidelines
+# mandatory for LIHEAP from October 1, 2025.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 1
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada 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: Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=110
+    - title: Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=110

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/income/child_age_limit.yaml

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+description: Nevada excludes from eligibility income, but counts toward the Fixed Annual Credit, the earned income of school-attending household members younger than this age under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Section 707 N covers children under 18 who attend elementary or high school
+# or GED classes at least half time, or are too young to attend school, and
+# live with the applicant parent or legal guardian. is_in_k12_school stands
+# in for school attendance, SPM membership for living with the parent, and
+# children too young for school are assumed to have no earnings.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 18
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP children's earned income age limit
+  reference:
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 705 and 707 N #page 46,57"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=46
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 705 and 707 N #page 46,57"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=46

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/income/sources/earned.yaml

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+description: Nevada counts these sources as earned income of household members under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# Gross wages, salaries, commissions, tips and military pay, and income from
+# self-employment, a farm or a partnership. Section 707 K budgets
+# self-employment on gross income; the model's net business inputs stand in,
+# each floored at zero, so a loss in one source cannot offset another. The
+# earnings of a school-attending member under the children's earned income
+# age limit count toward the Fixed Annual Credit only. Travel and uniform
+# reimbursements and an earned income tax credit paid with wages, deducted
+# from gross earnings by Section 703 A, have no separate inputs.
+values:
+  2025-07-01:
+    - employment_income
+    # Military pay (Sections 703 A and 705), entered apart from
+    # employment_income; enter it in one of the two.
+    - military_basic_pay
+    - self_employment_income
+    - sstb_self_employment_income
+    - farm_operations_income
+    - partnership_s_corp_income
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP earned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 703 A, 705 and 707 K #page 43-44,46-48,55"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=43
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 703 A, 705 and 707 K #page 43-44,46-48,55"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=43
+    - title: "Nevada FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9 #page 5-6"
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/NV_Plan_2026.pdf#page=5
+    - title: "Nevada FY2027 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9 #page 5-6"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/fy-2027-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-liheap-state-plan.pdf#page=5

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/income/sources/unearned.yaml

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+description: Nevada counts these sources as unearned income of all household members under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-07-01:
+    - ssi
+    # Nevada's Optional State Supplementation, paid by SSA with SSI.
+    - nv_oss
+    # Pensions, annuities and retirement fund withdrawals.
+    - pension_income
+    - military_retirement_income
+    - retirement_distributions
+    - railroad_benefits
+    - survivor_benefits
+    - disability_benefits
+    - total_unemployment_compensation
+    - workers_compensation
+    - veterans_benefits
+    # Child support and alimony paid to a household member.
+    - child_support_received
+    - alimony_income
+    - interest_income
+    - ordinary_dividend_income
+    # Rental income, including money received from a roomer or boarder.
+    - rental_income
+    - farm_rent_income
+    # Cash contributions and recurring gifts.
+    - financial_assistance
+    # State, county, city or Native American public assistance.
+    - general_assistance
+    - strike_benefits
+    # Trust fund income.
+    - estate_income
+    # Gaming and lottery winnings.
+    - gambling_winnings
+    # Capital gains from the sale of property other than the primary home.
+    - capital_gains
+# Each source is floored at zero. Social Security net of the Medicare Part B
+# premium is counted in nv_liheap_countable_income; Section 703 B.I also
+# deducts the Part D premium, which has no input. Social Security and
+# veterans cost-of-living increases during the program year are not
+# excluded. TANF counts toward the Fixed Annual Credit only
+# (nv_liheap_fac_income). The earned income tax credit, SNAP, tax refunds,
+# public housing assistance and the other Section 706 exempt income are
+# excluded. educational_assistance is not counted: it cannot separate the
+# Title IV aid that Section 707 F exempts or net the qualifying expenses that
+# Section 705 deducts. Lump sums, inheritance, insurance payments, FEMA
+# Disaster Unemployment Assistance and utility reimbursement payments have no
+# inputs, nor do the Fixed Annual Credit-only reverse mortgage, AARP and
+# Title V, Supported Living Arrangement, vendor payment and savings or credit
+# draw income.
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP unearned income sources
+  reference:
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 703 B, 705, 706 and 707 F #page 44,46-48,51-53"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=44
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Sections 703 B, 705, 706 and 707 F #page 44,46-48,51-53"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=44
+    - title: Nevada FY2026 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9
+      href: https://liheapch.acf.gov/docs/2026/state-plans/NV_Plan_2026.pdf#page=6
+    - title: Nevada FY2027 LIHEAP State Plan, Section 1.9
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/fy-2027-low-income-home-energy-assistance-program-liheap-state-plan.pdf#page=6

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/payment/burden_rate.yaml

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+description: Nevada expects households to pay this share of their Fixed Annual Credit income toward primary heating and electric costs, the statewide median household energy burden, under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 0.0181
+  2026-07-01: 0.0148
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP median household energy burden rate
+  reference:
+    - title: NRS 702.260(7)(a)
+      href: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-702.html#NRS702Sec260
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 803 II and V and Appendix A #page 60,110"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=60
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Section 803 II and V and Appendix A #page 60,110"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=60

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/payment/cap/income_band.yaml

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+description: Nevada assigns this benefit cap income band from Fixed Annual Credit income as a share of the federal poverty guideline under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# The cap tables print the bands as "<75%", ">75-100%", ">100-125%" and
+# ">125-150%". Each band includes its top, so thresholds are keyed at the
+# band tops and looked up with right=True. SFY2026 Appendix A's printed 125%
+# column for sizes 4-8 does not equal 125% of the guideline (size 5:
+# $53,937.50 against $47,062.50), so the bands use the rates; the SFY2027
+# column matches the rate. Fixed Annual Credit income above 150% of the
+# guideline uses the last band.
+brackets:
+  # At or below 75% of the guideline.
+  - threshold:
+      2025-07-01: -.inf
+    amount:
+      2025-07-01: 1
+  # Above 75% through 100%.
+  - threshold:
+      2025-07-01: 0.75
+    amount:
+      2025-07-01: 2
+  # Above 100% through 125%.
+  - threshold:
+      2025-07-01: 1
+    amount:
+      2025-07-01: 3
+  # Above 125%.
+  - threshold:
+      2025-07-01: 1.25
+    amount:
+      2025-07-01: 4
+
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: /1
+  amount_unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP benefit cap income band
+  reference:
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A #page 110-111"
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=110
+    - title: "Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A #page 110-111"
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=110

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/nv/dwss/liheap/payment/cap/max_household_size.yaml

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+description: Nevada prints benefit cap table rows through this household size, with larger households using the last row, under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
+# The last row is printed as "8+".
+values:
+  2025-07-01: 8
+
+metadata:
+  unit: person
+  period: year
+  label: Nevada LIHEAP benefit cap table maximum household size
+  reference:
+    - title: Nevada SFY2026 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A benefit cap tables
+      href: https://dss.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dwssnvgov/content/Energy/FY%202026%20EAP%20Manual%2008.2025%20ADA.pdf#page=111
+    - title: Nevada SFY2027 Energy Assistance Program Manual, Appendix A benefit cap tables
+      href: https://www.dss.nv.gov/contentassets/b3bcdb93ea2d4b3f8dc252451a34cbe4/2027-eap-state-manual--08.25.26-1.pdf#page=111