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2024 Poverty Guidelines Computations

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Computations for the 2024 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

Poverty Guidelines

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The 2024 poverty guidelines are in effect as of January 17, 2024. Federal Register Notice, January 17, 2024.The Poverty Guidelines API is now available with the 2024 data.

2016 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs [Federal Register Notice, January 25, 2016 Full text ]

2020 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs [Federal Register Notice, January 17, 2020 Full text]

2018 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs [Federal Register Notice, January 18, 2018 Full text]

2019 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs

2017 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs [Federal Register Notice, January 31, 2017 Full text ]

2015 Poverty Guidelines

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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs [Federal Register Notice, January 22, 2015 Full text ]

2020 Poverty Guidelines Computations

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Computations for the 2020 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

2014 Poverty Guidelines

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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure [Federal Register Notice, January 24, 2014 Full text ]

2013 Poverty Guidelines

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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure [Federal Register Notice, January 24, 2013 — Full text ]

2018 Poverty Guidelines Computations

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Computations for the 2018 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

2017 Poverty Guidelines Computations

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Computations for the 2017 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

Computations for the 2016 Poverty Guidelines

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Computations for the 2016 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

2019 Poverty Guidelines Computations Page

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Computations for the 2019 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

2012 HHS Poverty Guidelines

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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure [ Federal Register Notice, January 26, 2012 Full text ] [ Prior Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References Since 1982 ]

Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Poverty Guidelines and Poverty

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What are the differences between the poverty guidelines and the poverty thresholds?

Prior HHS Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References

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Poverty guidelines since 1982 for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia can be calculated by addition using the figures shown below.

Geographic Variation in the Cost of Living: Implications for the Poverty Guidelines and Program Eligibility

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This report, prepared by the Urban Institute, provides a thorough review of the literature on the extent of price variation across geographic areas, an assessment of the available indices to use to adjust the poverty guidelines for geographic price variation, and trial estimates of how geographically adjusted poverty guidelines would affect program eligibility and federal and state costs.

Computations for the 2012 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia

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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2010 — published Sep. 2011a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.032 price inflatorb/ (4)