PolicyEngine / PolicyEngine/policyengine-api
Mixed-year requests return `nan`
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- Python
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- 33
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Description
The below request from MyFriendBen gives a nan. @nikhilwoodruff verified that it works in the Python package, and works when replacing 2023-10 with 2024-01 for snap.
{
'household': {
'people': {
'10221': {
'is_pregnant': {'2024': False},
'age': {'2024': 44, '2023': 44},
'wic': {'2024': None},
'wic_category': {'2024': None},
'employment_income': {'2024': 0, '2023': 0},
'medicaid': {'2024': None},
'pell_grant_dependent_available_income': {'2024': 0},
'pell_grant_countable_assets': {'2024': 0},
'cost_of_attending_college': {'2024': 0},
'pell_grant_months_in_school': {'2024': 9},
'is_tax_unit_dependent': {'2024': False, '2023': False},
'is_tax_unit_head': {'2024': True},
'is_tax_unit_spouse': {'2024': False, '2023': False},
'pell_grant': {'2024': None},
'ssi_countable_resources': {'2024': 0},
'ssi_reported': {'2024': 0},
'is_blind': {'2024': False},
'is_disabled': {'2024': False},
'ssi_earned_income': {'2024': 0},
'ssi_unearned_income': {'2024': 0},
'ssi': {'2024': None},
'co_state_supplement': {'2024': None},
'co_oap': {'2024': None},
'co_chp_eligible': {'2024': None},
}
},
'tax_units': {
'tax_unit': {
'members': ['10221'],
'pell_grant_primary_income': {'2024': 0},
'pell_grant_dependents_in_college': {'2024': 0},
'eitc': {'2023': None},
'co_eitc': {'2023': None},
'ctc': {'2023': None},
}
},
'families': {'family': {'members': ['10221']}},
'households': {
'household': {
'state_code_str': {'2024': 'CO', '2023': 'CO'},
'members': ['10221'],
}
},
'spm_units': {
'spm_unit': {
'members': ['10221'],
'broadband_cost': {'2024': 500},
'acp': {'2024': None},
'lifeline': {'2024': None},
'school_meal_daily_subsidy': {'2024': None},
'school_meal_tier': {'2024': None},
'snap_child_support_deduction': {'2023': 0.0},
'snap_gross_income': {'2023': 0},
'snap_assets': {'2023': 0},
'meets_snap_categorical_eligibility': {'2023': False},
'snap_emergency_allotment': {'2023': 0},
'housing_cost': {'2023': 0},
'meets_snap_gross_income_test': {'2023': True},
'has_phone_expense': {'2023': False},
'has_heating_cooling_expense': {'2023': False},
'heating_cooling_expense': {'2023': 0.0},
'electricity_expense': {'2023': 0.0},
'snap_earned_income': {'2023': 0.0},
'meets_snap_asset_test': {'2023': True},
'childcare_expenses': {'2023': 0.0},
'snap': {'2023-10': None},
'co_tanf_countable_gross_earned_income': {'2024': 0},
'co_tanf_countable_gross_unearned_income': {'2024': 0},
'co_tanf': {'2024': None},
}
},
'marital_units': {},
}
}
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the request in the issue against the PolicyEngine API, then compare its result with the Python package and with the same request using 2024-01 for snap. Done means the mixed-year request no longer returns nan and produces the expected calculation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100