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Count cash aid, veterans benefits, rental income, pensions, and survivor benefits as Texas TANF unearned income - #9383

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Count cash aid, veterans benefits, rental income, pensions, and survivor benefits as Texas TANF unearned income#9383
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Adds seven income sources to gov/states/tx/tanf/income/sources/unearned.yaml that the federal TANF unearned list includes and the Texas Works Handbook counts, but the TX list omitted. Before this change no cash-aid input a partner could send (financial_assistance, gi_cash_assistance, general_assistance) was counted by tx_tanf, and veterans benefits, rental income, pensions, and survivor benefits were ignored as well.

Closes #9381

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Source Handbook treatment
financial_assistance, gi_cash_assistance A-1326.1: cash gifts and contributions count as unearned income. The exemption for need-based nonprofit contributions up to $300/quarter is not modeled.
general_assistance A-1320 catch-all
veterans_benefits A-1324.20: gross benefit counted as unearned
rental_income A-1323.4.2 / A-1325: unearned unless managed 20+ hours a week; all rental income treated as unearned
pension_income A-1320 catch-all; railroad retirement explicit at A-1324.23
survivor_benefits A-1324.16: RSDI counted as unearned

Unchanged sources are annotated with their handbook subsections, and the handbook link is updated to the fhb.hhs.texas.gov host the old URL redirects to.

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Tests

  • New tx_tanf_gross_unearned_income.yaml: each added source counted; earned income, SSI, and TANF not counted.
  • Two household-level cases added to tx_tanf_countable_unearned_income.yaml: reported cash aid flows through, and veterans benefits plus child support with the $75 deduction.
  • No existing TX TANF test used any of the added inputs, so current cases are unaffected.

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…vor benefits as Texas TANF unearned income

The Texas TANF unearned source list omitted seven sources that the
federal list includes and that the Texas Works Handbook A-1320 counts,
so no cash-aid input a partner could send reached tx_tanf.

Closes PolicyEngine#9381

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Texas TANF unearned income list omits seven sources the Texas Works Handbook counts

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