Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines, 3971-3972 [08-256]

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ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey Building, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Washington, DC 20201. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about how the guidelines VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:31 Jan 22, 2008 Jkt 214001 are used or how income is defined in a particular program, contact the Federal, State, or local office that is responsible for that program. Contact information for two frequently requested programs is given below: For information about the Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Program (free or reduced-fee health care services at certain hospitals and other facilities for persons meeting eligibility criteria involving the poverty guidelines), contact the Office of the Director, Division of Facilities Compliance and Recovery, Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS, Room 10–105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857. To speak to a person, call (301) 443–5656. To receive a Hill-Burton information package, call 1–800–638– 0742 (for callers outside Maryland) or 1–800–492–0359 (for callers in Maryland). You also may visit https:// www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/default.htm. The Division of Facilities Compliance and Recovery notes that as set by 42 CFR 124.505(b), the effective date of this update of the poverty guidelines for facilities obligated under the HillBurton Uncompensated Services Program is sixty days from the date of this publication. For information about the percentage multiple of the poverty guidelines to be used on immigration forms such as USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support, contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at 1–800–375– 5283 or visit https://www.uscis.gov/files/ form/I-864p.pdf. For information about the number of people in poverty or about the Census Bureau poverty thresholds, visit the Poverty section of the Census Bureau’s Web site at https://www.census.gov/ hhes/www/poverty.html or contact the Census Bureau’s Demographic Call Center Staff at (301) 763–2422 or 1–866– 758–1060 (toll-free). For general questions about the poverty guidelines themselves, contact Gordon Fisher, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey Building, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20201— telephone: (202) 690–7507—or visit https://www.aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to update, at least annually, the poverty guidelines, which shall be used as an eligibility criterion for the PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 3971 Community Services Block Grant program. The poverty guidelines also are used as an eligibility criterion by a number of other Federal programs. The poverty guidelines issued here are a simplified version of the poverty thresholds that the Census Bureau uses to prepare its estimates of the number of individuals and families in poverty. As required by law, this update is accomplished by increasing the latest published Census Bureau poverty thresholds by the relevant percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The guidelines in this 2008 notice reflect the 2.8 percent price increase between calendar years 2006 and 2007. After this inflation adjustment, the guidelines are rounded and adjusted to standardize the differences between family sizes. The same calculation procedure was used this year as in previous years. (Note that these 2008 guidelines are roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for calendar year 2007 which the Census Bureau expects to publish in final form in August 2008.) The guideline figures shown represent annual income. 2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE 48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Persons in family 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... Poverty guideline $10,400 14,000 17,600 21,200 24,800 28,400 32,000 35,600 For families with more than 8 persons, add $3,600 for each additional person. 2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR ALASKA Persons in family 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... Poverty guideline $13,000 17,500 22,000 26,500 31,000 35,500 40,000 44,500 For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,500 for each additional person. E:\FR\FM\23JAN1.SGM 23JAN1 3972 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 15 / Wednesday, January 23, 2008 / Notices 2008 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR HAWAII Poverty guideline Persons in family ebenthall on PROD1PC69 with NOTICES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... .................................................... $11,960 16,100 20,240 24,380 28,520 32,660 36,800 40,940 For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,140 for each additional person. Separate poverty guideline figures for Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of Economic Opportunity administrative practice beginning in the 1966–1970 period. (Note that the Census Bureau poverty thresholds—the version of the poverty measure used for statistical purposes—have never had separate figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The poverty guidelines are not defined for Puerto Rico or other outlying jurisdictions. In cases in which a Federal program using the poverty guidelines serves any of those jurisdictions, the Federal office that administers the program is generally responsible for deciding whether to use the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines for those jurisdictions or to follow some other procedure. Due to confusing legislative language dating back to 1972, the poverty guidelines have sometimes been mistakenly referred to as the ‘‘OMB’’ (Office of Management and Budget) poverty guidelines or poverty line. In fact, OMB has never issued the guidelines; the guidelines are issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services. The poverty guidelines may be formally referenced as ‘‘the poverty guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the authority of 42 U.S.C. 9902(2).’’ Some programs use a percentage multiple of the guidelines (for example, 125 percent or 185 percent of the guidelines), as noted in relevant authorizing legislation or program regulations. Non-Federal organizations that use the poverty guidelines under their own authority in non-federallyfunded activities can choose to use a percentage multiple of the guidelines such as 125 percent or 185 percent. The poverty guidelines do not make a distinction between farm and non-farm families, or between aged and non-aged units. (Only the Census Bureau poverty thresholds have separate figures for aged VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:17 Jan 22, 2008 Jkt 214001 and non-aged one-person and twoperson units.) Note that this notice does not provide definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or ‘‘family.’’ This is because there is considerable variation in how different programs that use the guidelines define these terms, traceable to the different laws and regulations that govern the various programs. Therefore, questions about how a particular program applies the poverty guidelines (for example, Is income before or after taxes? Should a particular type of income be counted? Should a particular person be counted in the family or household unit?) should be directed to the organization that administers the program. Dated: January 17, 2008. Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services. [FR Doc. 08–256 Filed 1–18–08; 9:13 am] BILLING CODE 4151–05–M DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Decision To Evaluate a Petition To Designate a Class of Employees at Spencer Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works, Pittsburg, KS, To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at Spencer Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works, Pittsburg, Kansas, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows: Facility: Spencer Chemical Co., Jayhawks Works. Location: Pittsburg, Kansas. Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All employees. Period of Employment: January 1, 1958 through December 31, 1963. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, Director, Office of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 533–6800 (this is not a toll-free number). Information requests can also be submitted by e-mail to OCAS@CDC.GOV. Dated: January 15, 2008. John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. [FR Doc. E8–1031 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–19–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees to the Special Exposure Cohort National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees at the Y–12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384q. On December 14, 2007, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following employees do not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA: Statisticians who performed statistical analysis of biological experiments (working within the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biological Sciences Division) in all locations at the Y–12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who were employed by the Department of Energy or its contractors between January 1, 1958, and June 30, 1958. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, Director, Office of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 533–6800 (this is not a toll-free number). Information requests can also be submitted by e-mail to OCAS@CDC.GOV. Dated: January 15, 2008. John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational, Safety and Health. [FR Doc. E8–1033 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160–17–P E:\FR\FM\23JAN1.SGM 23JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 08-256]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides an update of the HHS poverty guidelines 
to account for last calendar year's increase in prices as measured by 
the Consumer Price Index.

DATES: Effective Date: Date of publication, unless an office 
administering a program using the guidelines specifies a different 
effective date for that particular program.

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and 
Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey Building, Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS), Washington, DC 20201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about how the 
guidelines are used or how income is defined in a particular program, 
contact the Federal, State, or local office that is responsible for 
that program. Contact information for two frequently requested programs 
is given below:
    For information about the Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services 
Program (free or reduced-fee health care services at certain hospitals 
and other facilities for persons meeting eligibility criteria involving 
the poverty guidelines), contact the Office of the Director, Division 
of Facilities Compliance and Recovery, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, HHS, Room 10-105, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, Maryland 20857. To speak to a person, call (301) 443-5656. 
To receive a Hill-Burton information package, call 1-800-638-0742 (for 
callers outside Maryland) or 1-800-492-0359 (for callers in Maryland). 
You also may visit https://www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/default.htm. The 
Division of Facilities Compliance and Recovery notes that as set by 42 
CFR 124.505(b), the effective date of this update of the poverty 
guidelines for facilities obligated under the Hill-Burton Uncompensated 
Services Program is sixty days from the date of this publication.
    For information about the percentage multiple of the poverty 
guidelines to be used on immigration forms such as USCIS Form I-864, 
Affidavit of Support, contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 
at 1-800-375-5283 or visit https://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-864p.pdf.
    For information about the number of people in poverty or about the 
Census Bureau poverty thresholds, visit the Poverty section of the 
Census Bureau's Web site at https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html 
or contact the Census Bureau's Demographic Call Center Staff at (301) 
763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll-free).
    For general questions about the poverty guidelines themselves, 
contact Gordon Fisher, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning 
and Evaluation, Room 404E, Humphrey Building, Department of Health and 
Human Services, Washington, DC 20201--telephone: (202) 690-7507--or 
visit https://www.aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 
1981 (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) requires the Secretary of the Department of 
Health and Human Services to update, at least annually, the poverty 
guidelines, which shall be used as an eligibility criterion for the 
Community Services Block Grant program. The poverty guidelines also are 
used as an eligibility criterion by a number of other Federal programs. 
The poverty guidelines issued here are a simplified version of the 
poverty thresholds that the Census Bureau uses to prepare its estimates 
of the number of individuals and families in poverty.
    As required by law, this update is accomplished by increasing the 
latest published Census Bureau poverty thresholds by the relevant 
percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
(CPI-U). The guidelines in this 2008 notice reflect the 2.8 percent 
price increase between calendar years 2006 and 2007. After this 
inflation adjustment, the guidelines are rounded and adjusted to 
standardize the differences between family sizes. The same calculation 
procedure was used this year as in previous years. (Note that these 
2008 guidelines are roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for 
calendar year 2007 which the Census Bureau expects to publish in final 
form in August 2008.) The guideline figures shown represent annual 
income.

2008 Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of
                                Columbia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Poverty
                      Persons in family                        guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1............................................................    $10,400
2............................................................     14,000
3............................................................     17,600
4............................................................     21,200
5............................................................     24,800
6............................................................     28,400
7............................................................     32,000
8............................................................     35,600
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    For families with more than 8 persons, add $3,600 for each 
additional person.

                   2008 Poverty Guidelines for Alaska
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                Poverty
                      Persons in family                        guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1............................................................    $13,000
2............................................................     17,500
3............................................................     22,000
4............................................................     26,500
5............................................................     31,000
6............................................................     35,500
7............................................................     40,000
8............................................................     44,500
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,500 for each 
additional person.

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                   2008 Poverty Guidelines for Hawaii
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                                                                Poverty
                      Persons in family                        guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1............................................................    $11,960
2............................................................     16,100
3............................................................     20,240
4............................................................     24,380
5............................................................     28,520
6............................................................     32,660
7............................................................     36,800
8............................................................     40,940
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,140 for each 
additional person.
    Separate poverty guideline figures for Alaska and Hawaii reflect 
Office of Economic Opportunity administrative practice beginning in the 
1966-1970 period. (Note that the Census Bureau poverty thresholds--the 
version of the poverty measure used for statistical purposes--have 
never had separate figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The poverty 
guidelines are not defined for Puerto Rico or other outlying 
jurisdictions. In cases in which a Federal program using the poverty 
guidelines serves any of those jurisdictions, the Federal office that 
administers the program is generally responsible for deciding whether 
to use the contiguous-states-and-DC guidelines for those jurisdictions 
or to follow some other procedure.
    Due to confusing legislative language dating back to 1972, the 
poverty guidelines have sometimes been mistakenly referred to as the 
``OMB'' (Office of Management and Budget) poverty guidelines or poverty 
line. In fact, OMB has never issued the guidelines; the guidelines are 
issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services. The 
poverty guidelines may be formally referenced as ``the poverty 
guidelines updated periodically in the Federal Register by the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services under the authority of 42 
U.S.C. 9902(2).''
    Some programs use a percentage multiple of the guidelines (for 
example, 125 percent or 185 percent of the guidelines), as noted in 
relevant authorizing legislation or program regulations. Non-Federal 
organizations that use the poverty guidelines under their own authority 
in non-federally-funded activities can choose to use a percentage 
multiple of the guidelines such as 125 percent or 185 percent.
    The poverty guidelines do not make a distinction between farm and 
non-farm families, or between aged and non-aged units. (Only the Census 
Bureau poverty thresholds have separate figures for aged and non-aged 
one-person and two-person units.)
    Note that this notice does not provide definitions of such terms as 
``income'' or ``family.'' This is because there is considerable 
variation in how different programs that use the guidelines define 
these terms, traceable to the different laws and regulations that 
govern the various programs.
    Therefore, questions about how a particular program applies the 
poverty guidelines (for example, Is income before or after taxes? 
Should a particular type of income be counted? Should a particular 
person be counted in the family or household unit?) should be directed 
to the organization that administers the program.

    Dated: January 17, 2008.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 08-256 Filed 1-18-08; 9:13 am]
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