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Maryland TCA grant standard outdated: FIA IM 26-13 (effective 2026-01-01) values not applied

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Description

`gov/states/md/tca/maximum_benefit/main.yaml` currently ends at the 2025-01-01 values from FIA Information Memo 25-12 (e.g. size 1: 339, size 3: 753, size 6: 1,149, size 10: 1,656, size 21: 3,183).

Maryland DHS FIA **IM 26-13** (released 2026-03-04, effective 2026-01-01, explicitly supersedes IM 25-12) raises the TCA/FIP schedule to 348 / 773 / 1,180 / 1,701 / 3,269 for those sizes (full 1–21 schedule in the memo).

Source: https://dhs.maryland.gov/documents/FIA/Action%20Transmittals-AT%20-%20Information%20Memo-IM/AT-IM2026/26-13-IM-2026-TCA-TDAP-Benefit-Increase.pdf

Found while cross-validating PolicyEngine against the Axiom rules corpus (TheAxiomFoundation/axiom-oracles, suite `md-tca-payments`); the five compared sizes each differ by exactly the IM 26-13 increase (9/20/31/45/86).

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Research direction

Open gov/states/md/tca/maximum_benefit/main.yaml and compare its 2025-01-01 schedule with Maryland DHS FIA IM 26-13. Update the full size 1–21 schedule to the effective 2026-01-01 values, then run the md-tca-payments suite from the Axiom cross-validation to verify the benefit amounts.

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