Apply CT C4K activity test to tax-unit head/spouse only#8067
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Follow-up to PolicyEngine#7778. Connecticut Care 4 Kids (C4K) requires the applicant / caretaker to meet an activity test: working, self-employed, receiving TFA, or a teen parent in school (RCSA 17b-749-04). The initial implementation in PolicyEngine#7778 checked whether *any* SPM-unit member had employment or self-employment income, which incorrectly treated a working dependent (e.g., a teen with a summer job) as satisfying the test for the whole family. This filters the earnings check by `is_tax_unit_head_or_spouse` so only the applicant's / spouse's activity counts. TFA eligibility and the teen-parent-in-school branches already reference the correct person, so they are left unchanged. Regression tests: * Case 7: working teen dependent (head has only pension income) now returns false. * Case 8: self-employed teen dependent also excluded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Follow-up to #7778. The Connecticut Care 4 Kids activity test (RCSA 17b-749-04) requires the applicant or caretaker to be employed, self-employed, receiving TFA, or a teen parent in school. The initial implementation checked whether any SPM-unit member had employment or self-employment income, so a working dependent (for example, a teen with a part-time or summer job) would make the whole family appear to meet the activity test.
Gating the earnings check on
is_tax_unit_head_or_spouserestricts the activity test to the applicant/spouse, matching the statute. TFA eligibility and the teen-parent-in-school branches already reference the correct person, so they are unchanged.Regulatory authority
Regression tests
Added two cases to
ct_c4k_meets_activity_test.yaml:false.false.Both tests fail on
mainand pass after this change. All 135 CT C4K tests and all 456 CT-state tests pass.Test plan