Zero imputed MA SSI state supplement for Senior Circuit Breaker income

[DTrim99]

Draft for review. Fixes the Massachusetts Senior Circuit Breaker discrepancy in #1031.

What

The MA Senior Circuit Breaker counts cash public assistance — including SSI — in its "total income" (MGL c.62 §6(k) / Schedule CB). PolicyEngine imputes a Massachusetts SSI state supplement (ma_state_supplement) for low-income elderly filers, which inflates the circuit-breaker income and understates the credit relative to TAXSIM/TaxAct (which don't model it).

The emulator already zeroes SSI, SNAP and TANF for exactly this reason, but missed ma_state_supplement. This zeroes it in both paths:

• runners/policyengine_runner.py (the Microsimulation/CLI path) — registers ma_state_supplement in the dataset column set and sets it to 0 per person.
• core/input_mapper.py (the single-household path) — zeroes it for MA records.

Result (MA single elderly renter, #1031)

	circuit-breaker income	credit
Before	$5,152 (incl. imputed $1,545.84 supplement)	$556
After	$3,606	$710.57

Matches the attached Schedule CB ($710). Verified via the emulator CLI on the #1031 input.

Scope

MA only for now. Other states' circuit breakers may treat the state supplement differently, so a blanket zeroing of all states' supplements is deliberately deferred.

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[PavelMakarchuk]

Thanks for diagnosing this @DTrim99 — the ma_state_supplement root cause is exactly right. Two issues came up when I verified it end-to-end, so I've opened #1049 as a superseding fix:

1. The dataset-level zeroing doesn't take effect. ssi/snap/tanf/ma_state_supplement are formula-based benefit variables, and the Microsimulation recomputes them, ignoring the value written into the dataset (setting them as an input leaves known_periods = []). I ran the MA 2025 single elderly 4Kintrec 4Krentpaid #1031 record on this branch and it still returns siitax $0, not −710.57 — so the same mechanism that was already "zeroing" ssi/snap has silently never worked. Zero PE-imputed transfers via set_input (fixes MA Senior Circuit Breaker, #1031) #1049 forces them off with sim.set_input(...) after the sim is built (the mechanism already used for w2_wages), which holds. That gets the record to −710.57 and also covers snap/tanf (never actually zeroed before) and every state SSI supplement (CA/CO/NM/SC/TX), not just MA.
2. This branch is behind main — its diff reverts Map TAXSIM scorp to s_corp_income leaf (coordinate with pe-us #8613) #1042 (s_corp_income → partnership_s_corp_income) and the state-aware pension-split code. Worth rebasing regardless.

#1049 verified against a before/after eCPS sweep (MA fixed exactly; no regressions). Suggest we close this in favor of #1049 — but it was your diagnosis that pinned it, so I'll leave that to you. Thanks again!

[PavelMakarchuk]

Closing as superseded by the merged #1049, which fixes this properly (the dataset-level zeroing this PR uses is silently recomputed for these formula-based benefit variables — I verified this branch still returns siitax $0 on the #1031 record; #1049 uses set_input and returns −710.57). Thanks again for the diagnosis, @DTrim99.