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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog.d/oh-nm-ccap-current-rule-references.fixed.md
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Cite the current Ohio PFCC (OAC 5180:6-1-03) and New Mexico CCAP (8.9.3 NMAC) rules, apply New Mexico's age-19 special-supervision limit from the 2025-11-04 rule amendment, and classify New Mexico five-year-olds as school age from September 2026.
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# 2023-07-01: copay waiver expired -- copays reinstated for families above
# 200% FPL (families at or below 200% FPL remained at $0);
# 2025-11-01: Universal Child Care -- no copays for anyone.
# 8.9.3.13.E NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04, states that copayments are
# waived. The rule that replaced 8.9.3 NMAC on 2026-09-09 has the department
# pay copayments for families at or below 600% FPL, and requires copayments
# only after a fiscal trigger (8.9.3.12), on a schedule that starts no earlier
# than 2027-03-01 (8.9.3.14.D).
# This flag is true only when copays are fully waived for every family (the
# 2022-05-01 to 2023-06-30 and 2025-11-01-onward windows). In the interim
# window it is false, but PolicyEngine still returns a $0 copay there because
# the reinstated >200% FPL copay uses the annually published copay schedule
# (8.15.2.24) that is not encoded, and the pre-2022 copay formula (8.15.2.13.B)
# is likewise not modeled -- see nm_ccap_copay for the documented approximation.
# (8.9.3.24 NMAC; from 2023-08-01 the percent-of-income chart in 8.9.3.13.D)
# that is not encoded, and the pre-2022 copay formula (8.15.2.13.B) is
# likewise not modeled -- see nm_ccap_copay for the documented approximation.
values:
2016-10-01: false
2022-05-01: true
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href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/CCA-Co-payments-waived_rev1l.pdf#page=1
- title: LFC Policy Brief, New Mexico Childcare Assistance Eligibility Changes (Dec 9 2025), p.2 (copay waiver expired 2023-07-01 for >200% FPL; no copays from 2025-11-01)
href: https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/ALFC%20120825%20Item%208%20Policy%20Brief%20Child%20Care%20Update.pdf#page=2
- title: 8.15.2.13.B NMAC
- title: 8.15.2.13.B NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.13 and 8.9.3.24 NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2026-09-08)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: "8.9.3.13.A-E NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04 (copayments are waived) #page 12-13"
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=12
- title: "8.9.3.12 and 8.9.3.14 NMAC (from 2026-09-09) #page 12-13"
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=12
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period: year
label: New Mexico CCAP child age limit
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.11.F NMAC
- title: 8.15.2.11.F NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.11.F NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2026-09-08)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: 8.9.3.10.F NMAC (from 2026-09-09)
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=10
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description: New Mexico limits continuing income eligibility to this percentage of the federal poverty guideline under the Child Care Assistance Program.
# Codified vs. operative layering. The NMAC rule (8.15.2.12) codifies a 250% FPG
# recertification/exit ceiling. Since May 1, 2022, however, ECECD has operated
# CCAP under broader expansion policies: the Legislative Finance Committee's
# December 2025 policy brief documents an operative continuation/exit ceiling of
# 425% FPG from May 1, 2022 (held at 425% through the July 1, 2023 copay-waiver
# expiration), and no income limit at all once Universal Child Care took effect
# November 1, 2025. We encode the operative ceilings (which is what actually
# determined continued eligibility) rather than the superseded codified 250%,
# and set the limit to infinity from 2025-11-01 (income_limit_in_effect also
# turns off then). Earlier operative expansions (200%/400% before May 2022)
# predate CCAP coverage in PolicyEngine and are not encoded.
# Codified vs. operative layering. The NMAC rule (8.15.2.12, then 8.9.3.12 from
# 2022-11-01) codifies a 250% FPG recertification/exit ceiling, or 425% for
# essential workers in priority four plus (8.9.3.9.G). Since May 1, 2022,
# however, ECECD has operated CCAP under broader expansion policies: the
# Legislative Finance Committee's December 2025 policy brief documents an
# operative continuation/exit ceiling of 425% FPG from May 1, 2022 (held at 425%
# through the July 1, 2023 copay-waiver expiration), and no income limit at all
# once Universal Child Care took effect November 1, 2025. The 2025-11-04
# amendment removed the ceilings from 8.9.3.12 and added category four C with
# no income cap (8.9.3.9.H), and the rule that replaced 8.9.3 NMAC on
# 2026-09-09 sets no income limit. PolicyEngine follows the operative ceilings
# in the LFC brief (which is what actually determined continued eligibility)
# over the codified 250%, and sets the limit to infinity from 2025-11-01
# (income_limit_in_effect also turns off then). Earlier operative expansions
# (200%/400% before May 2022) predate CCAP coverage in PolicyEngine and are not
# encoded.
values:
2016-10-01: 2.5
2022-05-01: 4.25
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period: year
label: New Mexico CCAP continuing income limit
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.12 NMAC (codified 250% continuation ceiling)
- title: 8.15.2.12 NMAC (codified 250% continuation ceiling, before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.9.F-G and 8.9.3.12 NMAC (codified 250% and essential-worker 425% continuation ceilings, 2022-11-01 to 2025-11-03)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: "8.9.3.9.H and 8.9.3.12 NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04 (no income cap) #page 6,12"
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=6
- title: "8.9.3.10.C and 8.9.3.12-13 NMAC (from 2026-09-09; no income limit, income sets waitlist priority only) #page 9,12"
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=9
- title: LFC Policy Brief, New Mexico Childcare Assistance Eligibility Changes (Dec 9 2025), p.2 (operative 425% from 2022-05-01; no income limit from 2025-11-01)
href: https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/ALFC%20120825%20Item%208%20Policy%20Brief%20Child%20Care%20Update.pdf#page=2
- title: ECECD Universal Child Care (no income limit from 2025-11-01)
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description: New Mexico limits initial income eligibility to this percentage of the federal poverty guideline under the Child Care Assistance Program.
# Codified vs. operative layering. The NMAC rule (8.15.2.9) codifies a 200% FPG
# initial-certification ceiling. Since May 1, 2022, however, ECECD has operated
# CCAP under successively broader emergency/expansion policies: the Legislative
# Finance Committee's December 2025 policy brief documents an operative initial
# ceiling of 400% FPG from May 1, 2022 (held at 400% through the July 1, 2023
# copay-waiver expiration), and no income limit at all once Universal Child Care
# took effect November 1, 2025. We encode the operative ceilings (which is what
# actually determined eligibility) rather than the superseded codified 200%, and
# set the limit to infinity from 2025-11-01 (income_limit_in_effect also turns
# off then, short-circuiting the income test). Earlier operative expansions
# (150%/350% before May 2022) predate CCAP coverage in PolicyEngine and are not
# encoded.
# Codified vs. operative layering. The NMAC rule (8.15.2.9.F, then 8.9.3.9.F
# from 2022-11-01) codifies a 200% FPG initial-certification ceiling, or 400%
# for essential workers in priority four plus (Subsection G). Since May 1,
# 2022, however, ECECD has operated CCAP under successively broader
# emergency/expansion policies: the Legislative Finance Committee's December
# 2025 policy brief documents an operative initial ceiling of 400% FPG from May
# 1, 2022 (held at 400% through the July 1, 2023 copay-waiver expiration), and
# no income limit at all once Universal Child Care took effect November 1,
# 2025. The 2025-11-04 amendment added category four C with no income cap
# (8.9.3.9.H), and the rule that replaced 8.9.3 NMAC on 2026-09-09 sets no
# income limit. PolicyEngine follows the operative ceilings in the LFC brief
# (which is what actually determined eligibility) over the codified 200%, and
# sets the limit to infinity from 2025-11-01 (income_limit_in_effect also
# turns off then, short-circuiting the income test). Earlier operative
# expansions (150%/350% before May 2022) predate CCAP coverage in PolicyEngine
# and are not encoded.
values:
2016-10-01: 2
2022-05-01: 4
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period: year
label: New Mexico CCAP initial income limit
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.9 NMAC (codified 200% initial ceiling)
- title: 8.15.2.9 NMAC (codified 200% initial ceiling, before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.9.F-G NMAC (codified 200% and essential-worker 400% initial ceilings, 2022-11-01 to 2025-11-03)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: 8.9.3.9.H NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04 (category four C has no income cap)
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=6
- title: "8.9.3.10.C and 8.9.3.12-13 NMAC (from 2026-09-09; no income limit, income sets waitlist priority only) #page 9,12"
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=9
- title: LFC Policy Brief, New Mexico Childcare Assistance Eligibility Changes (Dec 9 2025), p.2 (operative 400% from 2022-05-01; no income limit from 2025-11-01)
href: https://www.nmlegis.gov/handouts/ALFC%20120825%20Item%208%20Policy%20Brief%20Child%20Care%20Update.pdf#page=2
- title: ECECD Universal Child Care (no income limit from 2025-11-01)
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# effective November 1, 2025) removes the child-level citizenship/immigration
# test; a participating New Mexico child without a federally eligible status is
# served with state funds, so status only sets the funding source, not
# eligibility.
# eligibility. The 2025-11-04 amendment of 8.9.3.11.E NMAC adopts this rule,
# and 8.9.3.10.E NMAC keeps it from 2026-09-09.
values:
2016-10-01: true
2025-11-01: false
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period: month
label: New Mexico CCAP immigration test in effect
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.11.E NMAC
- title: 8.15.2.11.E NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.11.E NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2025-11-03)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: 8.9.3.11.E NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04 (citizenship status does not affect eligibility)
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=11
- title: 8.9.3.10.E NMAC (from 2026-09-09)
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=10
- title: ECECD Universal Child Care
href: https://www.nmececd.org/universal/
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# New Mexico's Universal Child Care initiative (a state ECECD program, the
# first in the nation; effective November 1, 2025) removes all income limits;
# New Mexico families are eligible regardless of income from that date forward.
# The 2025-11-04 amendment added category four C with no income cap
# (8.9.3.9.H NMAC), and the rule that replaced 8.9.3 NMAC on 2026-09-09 sets
# no income limit.
values:
2016-10-01: true
2025-11-01: false
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period: month
label: New Mexico CCAP income limit in effect
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.9 NMAC
- title: 8.15.2.9 NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.9 NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2025-11-03)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: 8.9.3.9.H NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04 (category four C has no income cap)
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=6
- title: "8.9.3.10.C and 8.9.3.12-13 NMAC (from 2026-09-09; no income limit, income sets waitlist priority only) #page 9,12"
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=9
- title: ECECD Universal Child Care
href: https://www.nmececd.org/universal/
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description: New Mexico limits child care assistance for children with special supervision needs to those under this age under the Child Care Assistance Program.
values:
# "Between the ages of 13 and 18" (8.9.3.11.G) and the Parents' Guide's "up
# to 18 years of age" are read as under 18, so an 18-year-old is excluded.
# "Between the ages of 13 and 18" (8.15.2.11.G, then 8.9.3.11.G) and the
# Parents' Guide's "up to 18 years of age" are read as under 18, so an
# 18-year-old is excluded.
2016-10-01: 18
# 2026 Laws, Ch. 63 (SB 241) is effective May 20, 2026. Monthly periods
# resolve parameters at the first of the month, so the monthly model first
# applies the age-19 limit for June 2026; May 2026 still uses 18.
2026-05-20: 19
# The amendment of 8.9.3.11.G effective 2025-11-04 changed the range to
# "between the ages of 13 and 19", read the same way as under 19.
# 8.9.3.10.G keeps it from 2026-09-09, and 2026 Laws, Ch. 63 (SB 241),
# Section 4(B), sets the same under-19 limit in statute from May 20, 2026.
# Monthly periods resolve parameters at the first of the month, so the
# monthly model first applies the age-19 limit for December 2025; November
# 2025 still uses 18.
2025-11-04: 19

metadata:
unit: year
period: year
label: New Mexico CCAP special needs or court-supervised child age limit
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.11.G NMAC (in effect 10/1/2016 to 10/31/2022)
- title: 8.15.2.11.G NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.11.G NMAC (successor to 8.15.2.11.G)
- title: 8.9.3.11.G NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2025-11-03)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: 8.9.3.11.G NMAC, as amended effective 2025-11-04, ages 13 to 19
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/8.9.3_integrated_FULL-TEXT.pdf#page=11
- title: 8.9.3.10.G NMAC (from 2026-09-09), ages 13 to 19
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=10
- title: ECECD Parents' Guide to Selecting Quality Child Care, ages served
href: https://www.nmececd.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Parents-Guide-to-Child-Care_English.pdf#page=5
- title: 2026 New Mexico Laws, Chapter 63 (SB 241), Section 4(B), under age nineteen if under court supervision
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# 0 = INFANT (0-23 months), 1 = TODDLER (24-35 months),
# 2 = PRESCHOOL (three to five year olds, 36-71 months),
# 3 = SCHOOL_AGE (six year olds and older, 72+ months).
# The rule that replaced 8.9.3 NMAC makes a child school age once the child is
# five years old by September 1 of the school year (8.9.3.7(I)(3)).
# 8.9.3.19(D) dates the move of preschool children to school age September 1,
# 2026, but the rule took effect on its publication on 2026-09-09 (8.9.3.5
# NMAC; NMSA 14-4-5: no rule is valid or enforceable until it is published in
# the New Mexico Register). The new threshold therefore starts 2026-09-09, and
# the monthly model first applies it in October 2026. From then PRESCHOOL is
# 36-59 months and SCHOOL_AGE is 60+ months.
# Age in whole years only approximates the September 1 cutoff: every child of
# age five is school age, although a child who turns five after September 1
# stays preschool for that school year (8.9.3.7(I)(3)(c), 8.9.3.19(D)). Late
# in the school year, that covers most five-year-olds.
metadata:
type: single_amount
threshold_unit: month
amount_unit: /1
period: year
label: New Mexico CCAP age group by months
reference:
- title: 8.15.2.7(I)(2)(a)-(d) NMAC
- title: 8.15.2.7(I)(2)(a)-(d) NMAC (before 2022-11-01)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.015.0002.html
- title: 8.9.3.7(I)(2)(a)-(d) NMAC (2022-11-01 to 2026-09-08)
href: https://www.srca.nm.gov/parts/title08/08.009.0003.html
- title: "8.9.3.7(I)(3)(a)-(d) and 8.9.3.19(D) NMAC (from 2026-09-09) #page 3,18"
href: https://prod-rf-lambda.rtssaas.com/PublicFiles/d89c47bd0d70402dba89b03a22bda6d1/b0e207a9-a1a3-412d-9660-0a6e925f6f25/8.9.3.pdf#page=3

brackets:
- threshold:
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2016-10-01: 2
- threshold:
2016-10-01: 72
2026-09-09: 60
amount:
2016-10-01: 3
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period: year
label: Ohio PFCC earned income sources
reference:
- title: OAC 5180:2-16-03(C),(D) — Income eligibility requirements (earned income)
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/2/16/5180$2-16-03_20220227.pdf
- title: "OAC 5180:2-16-03(C),(D) — Income eligibility requirements (earned income) (effective 2022-02-27) #page 1-2"
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/2/16/5180$2-16-03_20220227.pdf#page=1
- title: "OAC 5180:6-1-03(C),(D) — Income eligibility requirements (earned income) (effective 2026-08-01) #page 1-2"
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/6/1/5180$6-1-03_20260801.pdf#page=1
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period: year
label: Ohio PFCC minor age limit
reference:
- title: OAC 5180:2-16-03(F)(1)
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/2/16/5180$2-16-03_20220227.pdf
- title: OAC 5180:2-16-03(F)(1) (effective 2022-02-27)
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/2/16/5180$2-16-03_20220227.pdf#page=4
- title: OAC 5180:6-1-03(F)(1) (effective 2026-08-01)
href: https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/administrative-code/authenticated/5180/6/1/5180$6-1-03_20260801.pdf#page=3
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