Add WA SFA, WA RCA, and federal 5-year bar; fix WA TANF countable-income test

changelog.d/wa-rca-tanf-fixes.added.md

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+Washington State Family Assistance and Refugee Cash Assistance programs.
+Fix Washington TANF immigration eligibility, add `years_since_us_entry` and `wa_show_all_cash_assistance_programs` variables.

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/hhs/tanf/bar_exempt_immigration_statuses.yaml

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+description: The United States exempts these immigration statuses from the five-year bar on federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
+
+# PAROLED_ONE_YEAR is treated as bar-exempt starting 2021-09-30 to cover
+# Afghan (P.L. 117-43 § 2502, enacted 2021-09-30) and Ukrainian (P.L. 117-128
+# and P.L. 118-42 Div. G § 209(f)) humanitarian parolees, who are statutorily
+# treated as refugees for federal benefit purposes per 8 USC 1641(b)(8). We
+# do not distinguish those populations from other INA 212(d)(5) parolees at
+# the moment, so this over-grants the bar exemption to the small population
+# of non-humanitarian parolees. Kept consistent with the RCA eligible-status
+# list at parameters/gov/states/wa/dshs/rca/eligible_immigration_statuses.yaml.
+values:
+  1996-08-22:
+    - REFUGEE
+    - ASYLEE
+    - CUBAN_HAITIAN_ENTRANT
+    - DEPORTATION_WITHHELD
+  2021-09-30:
+    - REFUGEE
+    - ASYLEE
+    - CUBAN_HAITIAN_ENTRANT
+    - DEPORTATION_WITHHELD
+    - PAROLED_ONE_YEAR
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: TANF five-year bar exempt immigration statuses
+  reference:
+    - title: 8 USC 1613(b)(1) - Exceptions to five-year limited eligibility
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1613
+    - title: 8 USC 1641(b)(8) - "Qualified alien" includes humanitarian parolees treated as refugees
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1641
+    - title: P.L. 117-43 § 2502 - Afghan humanitarian parolees treated as refugees for benefit purposes
+      href: https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ43/PLAW-117publ43.pdf

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/hhs/tanf/five_year_bar_years.yaml

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+description: The United States bars qualified aliens from federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families for this many years after obtaining qualified status.
+
+values:
+  1996-08-22: 5
+
+metadata:
+  unit: year
+  period: year
+  label: TANF five-year bar duration
+  reference:
+    - title: 8 USC 1613(a) - Five-year limited eligibility
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1613

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/household/household_state_benefits.yaml

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     - ks_sspp
     # Hawaii benefits
     - hi_oss
+    # Washington benefits
+    - wa_sfa
+    - wa_rca
   2024-01-01:
     # Delaware benefits
     - de_ssp
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     - ks_sspp
     # Hawaii benefits
     - hi_oss
+    # Washington benefits
+    - wa_sfa
+    - wa_rca
 metadata:
   unit: list
   period: year

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wa/dshs/rca/eligible_immigration_statuses.yaml

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+description: Washington considers these immigration statuses eligible for the Refugee Cash Assistance program.
+
+# PAROLED_ONE_YEAR is treated as RCA-eligible starting 2021-09-30 to cover
+# Afghan (P.L. 117-43 § 2502, enacted 2021-09-30) and Ukrainian (P.L. 117-128
+# and P.L. 118-42 Div. G § 209(f)) humanitarian parolees, who are statutorily
+# treated as refugees for federal benefit purposes per 8 USC 1641(b)(8). We
+# do not distinguish those populations from other INA 212(d)(5) parolees at
+# the moment, so this over-grants RCA to the small population of
+# non-humanitarian parolees. PAROLED_ONE_YEAR is also bar-exempt for federal
+# TANF (see parameters/gov/hhs/tanf/bar_exempt_immigration_statuses.yaml), so
+# a humanitarian-parolee family with a child receives TANF rather than RCA;
+# RCA picks up adults without children and pre-TANF cases via the 12-month
+# ORR window.
+values:
+  1996-08-22:
+    - REFUGEE
+    - ASYLEE
+    - CUBAN_HAITIAN_ENTRANT
+    - DEPORTATION_WITHHELD
+    - CONDITIONAL_ENTRANT
+  2021-09-30:
+    - REFUGEE
+    - ASYLEE
+    - CUBAN_HAITIAN_ENTRANT
+    - DEPORTATION_WITHHELD
+    - CONDITIONAL_ENTRANT
+    - PAROLED_ONE_YEAR
+
+metadata:
+  unit: list
+  period: year
+  label: Washington RCA eligible immigration statuses
+  reference:
+    - title: 8 USC 1522 - Authorization for Refugee Assistance
+      href: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1522
+    - title: 45 CFR 400.43 - Requirements for Documentation of Immigration Status
+      href: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-B/chapter-IV/part-400/subpart-D/section-400.43
+    - title: WAC 388-466-0120 - Refugee assistance
+      href: https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=388-466-0120

policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/wa/dshs/sfa/student_pathway/age_eligible.yaml

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+description: Washington considers a person in this age range a 19-20 year old student for the State Family Assistance program.
+
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: year
+  amount_unit: bool
+  period: year
+  label: Washington SFA 19-20 year old student age eligibility
+  reference:
+    - title: WAC 388-400-0010(2)(c) - Who Is Eligible for State Family Assistance
+      href: https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=388-400-0010
+    - title: WAC 388-404-0005(3) - How Does a Child's Age and Attendance in School Affect Their Eligibility for TANF and SFA
+      href: https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=388-404-0005
+
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2010-07-01: 0
+    amount:
+      2010-07-01: false
+  - threshold:
+      2010-07-01: 19
+    amount:
+      2010-07-01: true
+  - threshold:
+      2010-07-01: 21
+    amount:
+      2010-07-01: false