Government Benefits & Services Mod

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Mod Description
This mod gives your sims the ability to apply for Welfare, Child Support, And SNAP if they qualify. If your sim enrolls in either program, they will receive their benefits every Friday at around 12:00PM

Disclaimer
In order for the Government Benefits & Services mod to work properly you will need to install Battery's C# Script Utility

Additionally, make sure you install each package on the zip file. The Script, EBT Card, and Food Stamp Coupon Object.

Updates
12/17/2023(V1.8)
  • Fixed a bug where newly placed computers were not getting the apply/opt out of Welfare, SNAP, and Child Support interactions. I had the code written, but never had them load in. My bad...
  • Fixed an error where Custodian Parents were receiving the incorrect amount of Child Support. This was a minor error in how my equation was written for the Custodian Parent. I mainly tested with the non custodian parent, therefore I never noticed that the custodian parent was receiving the incorrect amount. Non Custodian Parent equation was (NonCustodianFamilyFunds + NonCustodianHomeLotValue) * kPercentOfWealthGivenPerChild (0.01). Meanwhile the Custodian Parents equation was NonCustodianFamilyFunds + NonCustodianHomeLotValue * kPercentOfWealthGivenPerChild (0.01). Without the parenthesis the amount would be much different. I went ahead and fixed that error.
12/15/2023(V1.7)
  • Now you can now also apply/Opt Out via the computer for Welfare, SNAP, and Child Support.
12/13/2023(V1.6)
  • Made a small adjustment to how Child Support payments work. Payments now take into consideration the non custodian parents home lot value. Therefore say the non custodial parent's child support due amount is 1% each week, has a home lot value of 200k, and has 100k in their household funds. The total amount of child support owed per child for the week would be 3k.
  • Additionally, if you are playing as the non custodial parent, the custodial parent now actually receives the funds even when they are not the active household. Previously you had to play as the custodial parent in order to receive child support payments. Playing as the custodial parent still does not cause the non custodial sim to actually lose money. It is like this, since non active sims don't seem to actually earn simoleans on their own. And they would quickly go in dept. So therefore they only actually lose money when they are the active household.
  • Fixed bug that would cause other sims to be unclickable if you happen to have a Food Stamp Coupon in your sims inventory and you have never met the target sim.

12/10/2023(V1.5)
  • Changed how Child Support payments work. Instead of a flat price. It is now a percentage of what the non custodial parent has in their household funds. I figured this approach would be better since it distinguishes between getting child support from rich non custodial parents to non rich non custodial parents. By default the percentage is 1% (0.01). You can change the percentage in the Tunable XML. But keep it between 1.00-0.00.
  • Added the ability to tune the amount of items received from the Food Bank via the Tunable XML.
  • Added the ability to tune the amount of simoleans gained from selling the food stamp coupons. They have a minimum and maximum value that you can decide
  • Add the ability to adjust the Household Residential Lot Value qualification criteria for welfare. By default anything below 30k will meet this qualification. However, now you can increase it or decrease it in the Tunable XML File.

8/27/2023(V1.4)
  • Fixed a Bug in which when the non custodial parent died, the custodial parent would still receive child support. This should no longer be the case. When the non custodial parent dies, the custodial parent will no longer receive their child support and on friday they will be notified that they will no longer receive any child support.
  • You can now use the Withdraw feature from your EBT card within your sims inventory. Previously you had to place the EBT card down in the world and then you could use the Withdrawal feature.

6/29/2023(V1.3)
  • Fixed a Bug which prevented sims from receiving their Welfare Benefits if they had ever received Child Support in the past. Even if they had opted out of Child Support. Now you should be able to receive Welfare Benefits regardless if you had received Child Support in the past.

6/27/2023(V1.2)
  • Fixed a Bug which was causing welfare payments to triple, double, etc. To receive the correct welfare payouts, please install the new version of the mod and once you load into the game opt out of your welfare benefits and reapply to welfare. The payouts should now be correct after performing these steps.

Overview
  • New Interactions
  • New Moodlets
  • New Objects

Government Benefits & Services Mod Guide

Polycounts
  • EBT Card - 30
  • Food Stamp Coupon - 14

Tuning
All of these values are tunable in the mod's XML file

kEBTCardPaymentForTeensandAbove = 200

kEBTCardPaymentForChildOrBelow = 300

kWelfarePaymentForYoungAdultOrAbove = 200

kWelfarePaymentForTeenOrBelow = 350

kHouseholdResidentialLotValueQualification = 30000;

kAmountOfFoodItemsReceivedFromFoodBank = 10;

kMinAmountOfSaleValueOfEBTCoupon = 100;

kMaxAmountOfSaleValueOfEBTCoupon = 300;

kPercentOfWealthGivenPerChild = 0.01;


Languages That the Mod Currently Supports
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese (PT)
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese (BR)

Conflicts
Since this is a Script mod there should not be any conflicts

Inspiration
This mod was heavily inspired by two mods that are available for TS4. SeSeSimmi's SNAP EBT/ASS mod & SNB Government Benefits mod.

Credits
Battery's C# Script Utility, Script Mod Template Creator, Notepad, Notepad++, Visual Studios 2019, PhotoShop, Blender, Milkshape, ILSpy, s3pe.
  • Twinsimming For Testing and helping when I had a coding question
  • Battery For providing the community with their C# Script Utility Mod.
  • gamefreak130 For Helping when I had a coding question
  • desiree101 For bringing up SeSeSimmi's SNAP EBT/ASS mod. Had this not been pointed out, then this mod would have most likely only included Welfare and Child Support.
  • JenniferB For providing French Translation.
  • CMaxi For providing Spanish Translation.
  • David Manaia For providing Portuguese (PT) Translation.
  • eliasojohansen For providing Norwegian Translation.
  • victorpaesplinio For providing Portuguese (BR) Translation.
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