Fix OAP for married people who both qualify for SSI.
Currently PE assigns SSI for married couples who both qualify for SSI to one of the members. This results in OAP being 0 for one member and full for the other. Instead, we should use half of the couple's SSI amount for each member of the marital unit.
@MaxGhenis @PavelMakarchuk Here is some more context for this issue:
For a household were both members of a marital unit are eligible for SSI, currently all of the income is given to one member of the marital unit. This is the incorrect way to handle this according to the handbook.
Here is a test that can be used to see how SSI is currently handled for members of a marital unit.
- name: Multiple people eligible
period: 2024
input:
people:
head:
is_ssi_aged_blind_disabled: true
spouse:
is_ssi_aged_blind_disabled: true
tax_units:
tax_unit:
members: [head, spouse]
marital_units:
marital_unit:
members: [head, spouse]
output:
ssi: [0, 0]
We also compiled some more detailed notes here including some of our conversations with CDHS and some examples.
This leads to issues with the state supplement (at least in Colorado) where the spouse might get OAP/AND-CS when they should not because we are saying that they have no SSI.
The current pr that I made simply splits the SSI for the marital couple when calculating the state supplements in Colorado, but it might be a better solution to split it at the SSI level given the handbook says married couples will receive separate checks if they are both eligible for SSI.