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The 2025 HHS poverty guidelines set the annual Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for the 48 contiguous states at $15,650 for a single-person household and $54,150 for an eight-person household, with per‑per...
The federal poverty guideline for a household of two used for 2026 coverage (the 2025 guideline typically applied to 2026 Marketplace eligibility) is reported by multiple health-policy and enrollment ...
The federal poverty guidelines (also called the Federal Poverty Level, FPL) are annual income standards published for administrative use by federal programs and set by the Department of Health and Hum...
The official federal poverty guidelines (often called the FPL) are published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on its ASPE poverty-guidelines page and in the Federal Register; ...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) routinely issues annual poverty guidelines in mid-to-late January, formally publishing them via a Federal Register notice and on the HHS/ASPE poverty ...
The federal poverty guidelines (FPG) published by HHS are the baseline that many federal and state programs use for income eligibility; health programs (Medicaid, CHIP, Marketplace subsidies) and nutr...
If you need an “official” table of 2026 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) figures for ACA calculations, the authoritative source is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (ASPE) poverty guidelines...
The official HHS source for the poverty guidelines is the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) “Poverty Guidelines” page and its linked PDF tables; ASPE publishes annua...
Official federal poverty guidelines and the HHS methodology are published by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE); ASPE hos...
HHS publishes its federal poverty guidelines — including the separate, higher figures for Alaska and Hawaii — through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the a...
A mix of federal agencies, academic research centers, and policy think tanks publish up-to-date statistics and analyses on immigrant use of welfare and entitlement programs; chief among the government...
Federal agencies publish the baseline annual Federal Poverty Guidelines (FPG) and some provide downloadable data/APIs; HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) hosts ...
The 2025 federal poverty guideline for a family (household) of four in the 48 contiguous U.S. states is $32,150 (the guideline is higher for Alaska and Hawaii) . These “poverty guidelines” are the adm...
The official HHS source for the annual poverty guidelines is the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE); its poverty-guidelines page hosts the current tables and download...
The HHS poverty guidelines are the administrative numbers that many federal programs use to set income eligibility for benefits such as Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, TANF, CHIP and immigration-related affidavi...
The official 2026 HHS federal poverty guidelines by state and household size are published and maintained by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within HHS; the pr...
The Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is an annual income threshold set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and updated to reflect inflation and policy decisions; published guidelines ...
The official HHS poverty guidelines are published by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and are released as a Federal Register notice; ASPE hosts the detailed gui...
The official 2025/2026 federal poverty guideline tables in current circulation instruct that for households larger than eight persons, you add a fixed per-person amount to the eight‑person figure — bu...
The federal poverty guideline used for most program eligibility in 2026 is drawn from HHS’s 2025 poverty guidelines (used for 2026 coverage). For the 48 contiguous states and D.C., the 2025 guideline—...