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diff --git a/changelog.d/ny-unemployment-insurance.added.md b/changelog.d/ny-unemployment-insurance.added.md
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+Add New York Unemployment Insurance benefit (ny_ui), scoped to household calculations (claim-week inputs default to 0, so it is inert in microsimulation).
diff --git a/...ne_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/formula_min_amount.yaml b/...ne_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/formula_min_amount.yaml
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+description: New York sets this minimum weekly benefit rate for divisor-26 formula cases under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# $143 is the 2025-product value; the 2020 start date backdates it. Value
+# verified for 2025-2026; earlier dates carry the current-law value for
+# calculator convenience.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 143
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI formula minimum weekly benefit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/low_divisor.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/low_divisor.yaml
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+description: New York divides high quarter wages by this amount to compute the weekly benefit rate when high quarter wages are at or below the low threshold under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 25
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI low weekly benefit divisor
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...gine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/low_hq_threshold.yaml b/...gine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/low_hq_threshold.yaml
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+description: New York applies the low weekly benefit divisor when high quarter wages are at or below this amount under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# Value verified for 2025-2026; earlier dates carry the current-law value for
+# calculator convenience.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 3_575
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI low high quarter threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/max_amount.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/max_amount.yaml
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+description: New York sets this maximum weekly benefit rate under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The $869 step takes effect 2025-10-06, the first Monday of October 2025 (the
+# statutory effective point); the P832 reference to the "week of Oct 13"
+# reflects the benefit-payment lag, not a different effective date. The $869
+# value is set by Ch. 56 of the Laws of 2025. Within the YEAR period 2025 this
+# 2025-10-06 step is inert: the parameter resolves to $504 for all of 2025 and
+# the $869 value first bites in 2026. The $504 rate held flat 2019-2025 because
+# the NY Lab. Law § 590(5)(b) automatic increases were suspended while the UI
+# trust fund carried a federal advance balance.
+# FOLLOW-UP: a further step effective 2026-10-05 sets the maximum WBR to 50% of
+# the state average weekly wage per NY Lab. Law § 590(5). That value is not yet
+# published and may be suspended depending on the UI trust fund balance, so it
+# is not encoded here.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 504
+  2025-10-06: 869
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI maximum weekly benefit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: Ch. 56 of the Laws of 2025 — Maximum weekly benefit increase to $869
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3006
+    - title: Governor Hochul and Labor Leaders Announce Maximum Weekly Benefit Increase for Unemployed Workers, May 9, 2025
+      href: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-and-labor-leaders-announce-maximum-weekly-benefit-increase-unemployed-workers
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/max_weeks.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/max_weeks.yaml
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+description: New York limits the duration of benefits to this many weeks within a benefit year under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The standard 26-week cap has duration exceptions not modeled here: § 601
+# (extended-benefit periods) and § 599(2) (approved-training benefits) can
+# extend entitlement beyond 26 weeks.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 26
+
+metadata:
+  unit: week
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI maximum benefit weeks
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(4) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/min_amount.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/min_amount.yaml
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+description: New York sets this minimum weekly benefit rate under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The 2020-2023 minimum WBR values are corroborated against the archived
+# USDOL ETA "Significant Provisions of State Unemployment Insurance Laws"
+# January editions (NY row min WBA column): 2020 = $104, 2021 = $108,
+# 2022 = $116, 2023 = $124. Values from 2024 onward are documented by the
+# NYS-50 editions and NYSDOL P832. The rolling nys50.htm reference is pinned
+# to a Wayback Machine capture below.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 104
+  2021-01-01: 108
+  2022-01-01: 116
+  2023-01-01: 124
+  2024-01-01: 132
+  2025-01-01: 136
+  2026-01-01: 140
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI minimum weekly benefit rate
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: USDOL ETA, Significant Provisions of State UI Laws, January 2020 (NY row, minimum WBA, p. 3; archived)
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/20200324161321/https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/content/sigpros/2020-2029/January2020.pdf#page=3
+    - title: USDOL ETA, Significant Provisions of State UI Laws, January 2021 (NY row, minimum WBA, p. 4; archived)
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/20210518005701/https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/content/sigpros/2020-2029/January2021.pdf#page=4
+    - title: USDOL ETA, Significant Provisions of State UI Laws, January 2022 (NY row, minimum WBA, p. 4; archived)
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/20220520080838/https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/content/sigpros/2020-2029/January2022.pdf#page=4
+    - title: USDOL ETA, Significant Provisions of State UI Laws, January 2023 (NY row, minimum WBA, p. 4; archived)
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/20230902081422/https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/content/sigpros/2020-2029/January2023.pdf#page=4
+    - title: 2024 Form NYS-50, Employer's Guide to Unemployment Insurance, Wage Reporting, and Withholding Tax
+      href: https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/publications/2024/wt/nys50-1224.htm
+    - title: 2025 Form NYS-50, Employer's Guide to Unemployment Insurance, Wage Reporting, and Withholding Tax (archived)
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/2025id_/https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/publications/wt/nys50.htm
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...gine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/standard_divisor.yaml b/...gine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/standard_divisor.yaml
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+description: New York divides high quarter wages by this amount to compute the weekly benefit rate when high quarter wages exceed the low threshold under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 26
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI standard weekly benefit divisor
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/two_quarter_hq_threshold.yaml b/...parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/benefit/two_quarter_hq_threshold.yaml
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+description: New York applies the averaged two-highest-quarter weekly benefit formula when high quarter wages exceed this amount in a two or three quarter claim under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# Value verified for 2025-2026; earlier dates carry the current-law value for
+# calculator convenience.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 4_000
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI two or three quarter high quarter threshold
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...arameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/base_wages_multiplier.yaml b/...arameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/base_wages_multiplier.yaml
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+description: New York requires total base period wages to be at least this multiple of high quarter wages under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 1.5
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI base wages multiplier
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 527(1)(d) — Valid original claim
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/527
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...ters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/capped_other_quarters_rate.yaml b/...ters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/capped_other_quarters_rate.yaml
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+description: New York requires other base period quarters to provide at least this share of the high quarter cap when high quarter wages reach the cap under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The 0.5 share is published as a NYSDOL P832 worked-example test rather than
+# stated numerically in NY Lab. Law § 527(1)(d); the statute is cited for the
+# capped-wages structure and P832 for the value.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 0.5
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI capped other quarters wages share
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 527(1)(d) — Valid original claim
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/527
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...eters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/full_base_period_quarters.yaml b/...eters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/full_base_period_quarters.yaml
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+description: New York uses this many base period quarters with wages to apply the four-quarter weekly benefit formula under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 4
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI full base period quarters
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(a) — Rights to benefits
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/..._us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/high_quarter_cap.yaml b/..._us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/high_quarter_cap.yaml
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+description: New York applies the capped wages test when high quarter wages reach this amount under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The $19,118 step takes effect 2025-10-06, the first Monday of October 2025;
+# the P832 reference to the "week of Oct 13" reflects the benefit-payment lag,
+# not a different effective date. This cap tracks the $869 maximum WBR set by
+# Ch. 56 of the Laws of 2025 (high_quarter_cap = 22 x max WBR). Within the YEAR
+# period 2025 this 2025-10-06 step is inert: the parameter resolves to $11,088
+# for all of 2025 and the $19,118 value first bites in 2026.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 11_088
+  2025-10-06: 19_118
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI high quarter cap
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 527(1)(d) — Valid original claim
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/527
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/high_quarter_minimum.yaml b/...parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/high_quarter_minimum.yaml
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+description: New York requires this minimum amount of wages paid in the high quarter of the base period under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# Pre-2025 values are backfilled from official sources: the 2023 and 2024 high
+# quarter minimums are published directly (USDOL Significant Provisions Jan 2023;
+# NYSDOL P832 Jan 2025), and 2020-2022 are cross-checked via the statutory
+# derivation high_quarter_minimum = 221 x the applicable minimum wage, floored to
+# the next $100 (NY Lab. Law § 527(1)(d)) = min_amount x 25.
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 2_600
+  2021-01-01: 2_700
+  2022-01-01: 2_900
+  2023-01-01: 3_100
+  2024-01-01: 3_300
+  2025-01-01: 3_400
+  2026-01-01: 3_500
+
+metadata:
+  unit: currency-USD
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI high quarter minimum wages
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 527(1)(d) — Valid original claim
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/527
+    - title: USDOL ETA, Significant Provisions of State UI Laws, January 2023 (NY row, "1½ × HQW; $3,100 in HQ")
+      href: https://web.archive.org/web/20230902081422/https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/content/sigpros/2020-2029/January2023.pdf#page=4
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Jan 2025) — high quarter minimum increased from $3,300 for 2024 claims
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/01/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-1-25.pdf#page=2
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/...us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/quarters_required.yaml b/...us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/eligibility/quarters_required.yaml
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+description: New York requires wages to have been paid in at least this many calendar quarters of the base period under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+values:
+  2020-01-01: 2
+
+metadata:
+  unit: /1
+  period: year
+  label: New York UI quarters required
+  reference:
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 527(1)(d) — Valid original claim
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/527
+    - title: NYSDOL P832 (Feb 2026)
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/03/p832-how-your-weekly-ui-benefits-are-calculated-2-26.pdf#page=2
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/index.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/index.yaml
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+# Household-calculator scope only. The claim-week input variables
+# (ny_ui_weekly_hours_worked, ny_ui_gross_weekly_earnings, and the base-period
+# wage inputs) default to 0, so this program is inert in microsimulation and is
+# marked economy: false / household: true.
+metadata:
+  propagate_metadata_to_children: true
+  economy: false
+  household: true
diff --git a/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/partial/hours_tiers.yaml b/policyengine_us/parameters/gov/states/ny/dol/unemployment_insurance/partial/hours_tiers.yaml
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+description: New York pays this share of the weekly benefit rate based on hours worked in a week under the Unemployment Insurance program.
+
+# The hours-based partial-benefit tier system took effect 2021-08-16 (Ch. 277
+# of the Laws of 2021 § 31, as added by Ch. 305 of the Laws of 2021 § 14);
+# bracket start dates reflect that. Values verified for 2025-2026.
+# For periods before 2021-08-16 the earliest bracket set back-extends, so the
+# partial-benefit calculation applies the hours-tier system as an approximation;
+# the pre-reform day/earnings-based reduction is not separately modeled.
+brackets:
+  - threshold:
+      2021-08-16: 0
+    amount:
+      2021-08-16: 1
+  - threshold:
+      2021-08-16: 11
+    amount:
+      2021-08-16: 0.75
+  - threshold:
+      2021-08-16: 17
+    amount:
+      2021-08-16: 0.5
+  - threshold:
+      2021-08-16: 22
+    amount:
+      2021-08-16: 0.25
+  - threshold:
+      2021-08-16: 31
+    amount:
+      2021-08-16: 0
+
+metadata:
+  type: single_amount
+  threshold_unit: hour
+  amount_unit: /1
+  threshold_period: week
+  period: week
+  label: New York UI partial benefit hours tier rates
+  reference:
+    - title: NYSDOL P803 (Oct 2025), Partial Unemployment FAQs
+      href: https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2025/10/p803-partial-ui-faqs-10-3-25.pdf#page=1
+    - title: Ch. 277 of the Laws of 2021 § 31, as added by Ch. 305 of the Laws of 2021 § 14 — Partial unemployment hours-tier system
+      href: https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=S7148&term=2021&Text=Y
+    - title: NY Labor Law § 590(5)(c) — Benefit for partial unemployment
+      href: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/LAB/590
diff --git a/policyengine_us/programs.yaml b/policyengine_us/programs.yaml
@@ -1471,6 +1471,17 @@ programs:
     variable: ny_drive_clean_rebate
     parameter_prefix: gov.states.ny.nyserda.drive_clean
 
+  - id: ny_ui
+    name: New York Unemployment Insurance
+    full_name: New York Unemployment Insurance
+    category: Benefits
+    agency: New York State Department of Labor
+    status: partial
+    coverage: NY
+    variable: ny_ui
+    parameter_prefix: gov.states.ny.dol.unemployment_insurance
+    verified_years: "2025-2026"
+
   - id: ok_ui
     name: Oklahoma UI
     full_name: Oklahoma Unemployment Insurance
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		Add New York Unemployment Insurance benefit (ny_ui), scoped to household calculations (claim-week inputs default to 0, so it is inert in microsimulation).