Where can the HHS/ASPE 2026 Federal Poverty Guidelines table be downloaded in full?
Executive summary
The full HHS/ASPE Federal Poverty Guidelines table for the most recent update can be downloaded directly from the Department of Health and Human Services’ publication channels: the ASPE Poverty Guidelines web page (including its API) and the Federal Register notice that publishes the official figures; third‑party repositories such as the LIHEAP Clearinghouse and certain state websites also host the full FFY/Coverage Year tables (ASPE pages and API: [1]; API details: [6]; Federal Register notice: [5]; LIHEAP table: p1_s2). Users should note that ASPE has flagged temporary site restructuring and directs some users to hhs.gov for current information [1] [2].
1. Where the official table is published: the Federal Register notice
The legally authoritative public posting of the annual HHS poverty guidelines appears as an HHS notice in the Federal Register, which contains the full table and explanatory text for that update—this is the formal mechanism HHS uses to announce guideline changes and is indexed on FederalRegister.gov (the Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines notice: p1_s6).
2. Where ASPE hosts the table and machine‑readable versions
ASPE’s Poverty Guidelines hub hosts the human‑readable tables and also offers a Poverty Guidelines API that returns guideline values in JSON; the ASPE web pages are the canonical programmatic and archival source and the API supports GET requests to retrieve year‑specific tables and by‑state values (ASPE poverty page and API overview: [1]; API usage and examples: p1_s5).
3. Practical download options: HTML, PDF and JSON
For immediate downloads, users can retrieve the full table in multiple formats: view or save the ASPE poverty‑guidelines HTML pages and linked PDFs on the ASPE site [1], call the ASPE Poverty Guidelines API via an HTTPS GET to pull JSON for a given year and household size (API documentation and examples: p1_s5), or download the official Federal Register PDF/HTML of the HHS notice which reproduces the complete table and narrative (Federal Register notice: p1_s6).
4. Other repositories and state implementations that supply the same table
Several programmatic and state partners republish the full FFY/Coverage Year tables for operational use—examples include the LIHEAP Clearinghouse which provides FFY 2026 poverty tables used by utility assistance programs (LIHEAP FFY 2026 table: p1_s2) and state health or social‑services pages that publish the federal figures for local application (examples cited: state CIP/150% chart pages: p1_s8). These copies are useful for quick downloads but originate from the HHS/ASPE release [3] [4].
5. Caveats, timing and where to go if links are stale
ASPE has publicly noted that site content may not be updated currently because of HHS restructuring and in those cases users are pointed to hhs.gov or the Federal Register for authoritative postings (ASPE restructuring notice and referral to hhs.gov: [1]; general ASPE topics page: p1_s4). If the ASPE web pages appear out of date, the Federal Register notice remains the fallback authoritative source for the complete table [5], and the ASPE API historically provides programmatic access up through recent years when available [6].
6. What this does and does not answer
This identifies where the HHS/ASPE 2026 (FFY/Coverage Year) poverty guidelines table can be downloaded in full—officially from the Federal Register notice and ASPE’s poverty‑guidelines pages/API, with practical mirrors such as LIHEAP and state pages providing convenience copies [5] [1] [6] [3]. This reporting does not attempt to recreate the numeric table here because the user asked where to download the complete table; if a direct download link or a copy of the numeric rows is required, the Federal Register and ASPE pages cited should be used to fetch the official file [5] [1].