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The federal poverty guidelines used for 2026 coverage are the 2025 HHS poverty guidelines; for the 48 contiguous states and D.C. the guideline for a 1‑person household in 2025 is widely reported as $1...
Federal programs and ACA rules use specific percentages of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) to gate who gets Medicaid, Marketplace premium tax credits, cost‑sharing reductions, and employer “affordabil...
The 2026 federal poverty guideline figures used for most federal programs (the contiguous 48 states and D.C.) are the 2025 HHS poverty guidelines, which list annual 100% FPL income thresholds by house...
For official 2026 federal poverty guidelines, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/ASPE) publishes the poverty guidelines that federal programs use; the ASPE poverty-guidelines page i...
The Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is a fixed, annually published income guideline used by HHS to set eligibility cutoffs; the 2025/2026 guidelines are published by ASPE and drive many program rules (ASP...
and use higher federal poverty guideline dollar amounts than the 48 contiguous states, so any eligibility rule tied to a percent of the (FPL) — at 138% FPL, Marketplace premium tax credit ranges (comm...
The (FPL) is published as a set of dollar thresholds that differ by household size and by geographic area: one set for the 48 contiguous states (including for many program rules) and higher supplement...
The 2026 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) increase will raise the dollar thresholds that federal- and state-programs use when they tie eligibility to a percentage of the FPL, meaning nominal income limits ...
The 2026 ACA premium tax credit eligibility hinges on the federal poverty guidelines for 2026 (used to compare projected 2026 income against the relevant FPL) and the related ACA affordability safe-ha...
HHS raised the federal poverty guidelines for 2025 from the 2024 levels by indexing the Census Bureau’s 2023 poverty thresholds to 2024 price changes using CPI‑U; the 2024 guideline set for a 4.1% pri...
The federal poverty guidelines used for 2026 marketplace eligibility are the 2025 HHS poverty guidelines; those 2025 guidelines reflect a 2.9% inflation adjustment from the prior update and list speci...
Roughly in the United States currently have an Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace plan, while broader ACA-related coverage including Medicaid expansion and other provisions reaches people; reportin...