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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.
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
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20857. To speak to a staff member,
please 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.
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/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://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 2009 notice reflect the
3.8 percent price increase between
calendar years 2007 and 2008. After this
inflation adjustment, the guidelines are
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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 2009 guidelines are roughly equal
to the poverty thresholds for calendar
year 2008 which the Census Bureau
expects to publish in final form in
August 2009.) The guideline figures
shown represent annual income.
2009 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE
48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Poverty
guideline
Persons in family
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
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$10,830
14,570
18,310
22,050
25,790
29,530
33,270
37,010
For families with more than 8 persons, add
$3,740 for each additional person.
2009 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
ALASKA
Poverty
guideline
Persons in family
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
$13,530
18,210
22,890
27,570
32,250
36,930
41,610
46,290
For families with more than 8 persons, add
$4,680 for each additional person.
2009 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
HAWAII
Poverty
guideline
Persons in family
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
................................................
$12,460
16,760
21,060
25,360
29,660
33,960
38,260
42,560
For families with more than 8 persons, add
$4,300 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
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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
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; that
organization has the responsibility for
making decisions about definitions of
such terms as ‘‘income’’ or ‘‘family’’ (to
the extent that the definition is not
already contained in legislation or
regulations).
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Dated: January 16, 2009.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Office of the Secretary
Findings of Scientific Misconduct
Office of the Secretary, HHS.
Notice.
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ACTION:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
and the Assistant Secretary for Health
have taken final action in the following
case:
Luk Van Parijs, PhD, Harvard Medical
School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
California Institute of Technology, and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Based on the reports of separate
investigations conducted by Harvard
Medical School (HMS)/Brigham and
Women’s Hospital (BWH), California
Institute of Technology (CalTech), and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and additional analysis
conducted by the Office of Research
Integrity (ORI) in its oversight review,
the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)
found that Dr. Luk Van Parijs, former
Graduate Student, Department of
Pathology, HMS, former Research
Fellow and Instructor of Pathology,
BWH, former Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Biology, CalTech, and
former Associate Professor, Department
of Biology, Center for Cancer Research,
MIT, engaged in scientific misconduct
in research supported by National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of
Health (NIH), grants U19 AI56900, R21
AI49897, R01 AI42100, P01 AI35297,
R37 AI25022, R01 AI32531, National
Cancer Institute, NIH, grant R01
CA51462, and National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS), NIH, grant P30 ES02109, and
National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS), NIH, grant R01
GM57931.
PHS found that Respondent engaged
in scientific misconduct by including
false data in NIAID, NIH, grant
applications R01 AI54519–01A1, R01
AI54973–01, and R01 AI54973–01A1,
NCI, NIH, grant application 2P30
CA14051–34, and National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK), NIH, grant
application R21 DK69277–01.
Specifically, PHS found that
Respondent engaged in scientific
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misconduct by including false data in
seven published papers, three submitted
papers (with two earlier versions
submitted for one of these), one
submitted book chapter, and multiple
presentations as follows:
1. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Luk Van
Parijs falsified the expression of IFN–g
and KJ–126 in flow cytometry dot plots
for the immunized, naive, tolerized and
tolerized + IL–12 experimental groups
in Figure 4, JEM 186:1119–1128, 1997,
by using the same non-stained cell
population in the lower left quadrant to
falsely represent CD4+ T cells negative
for IFN–g and KJ–126 in each
experimental group.
2. That Dr. Luk Van Parijs falsified the
expression of different proteins in flow
cytometry dot plots in Figure 1,
Immunity, 8:265–274, 1998, in Figure
1C, Immunity, 11:281–288, September
1999, and in Figure 5, Immunity
11:763–770, December 1999, by using
portions of the same dot plot to
represent different cell populations
expressing different proteins.
Specifically:
a. While at HMS/BWH, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent T cell populations expressing
the 3A9 T cell receptor and CD4+ (top
panel) or CD8+ (bottom panel) in 3A9+
(wild type), in 3A9/lpr (Fas¥), or in
3A9/gld (FasL¥) transgenic mice in
Figure 1, Immunity 1998, where:
i. The CD4/3A9 dot plots for the 3A9+
and 3A9/gld transgenic mice were the
same, and the 3A9+ dot plot was a
subset of the 3A9/lpr dot plot;
ii. The CD8/3A9 dot plots for the
3A9+ and 3A9/lpr transgenic mice were
the same in the lower left and lower
right quadrants, and the 3A9/gld dot
plot was a subset of the wild type dot
plot
b. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent the expression of hIL–2Rb and
GFP in T cells infected with WT or
D355+8F IL–2R mutant in Figure 1C,
Immunity, September 1999, where the
D355+8F dot plot was a subset of the
WT dot plot
c. While at CalTech, Dr. Van Parijs
used portions of the same dot plot to
represent the expression of B220 and
IgM in infected (GFP+) and not infected
(GFP¥) spleen cells isolated from
reconstituted mice in Figure 5,
Immunity, December 1999, where the
Infected (GFP+) dot plot for control
mice was a subset of the Not Infected
(GFP¥) dot plot for FLIP mice.
3. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
falsely claimed in the text of RNA
Interference Technology (Cambridge
University Press, July 2004) and in
Figure 2 of Nature Genetics 33:401–406
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(2003) that experiments depicting the
functional silencing of genes in
hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and in
non-cycling dendritic cells by lentiviralmediated RNAi were performed, when
they were not. Specifically, in Nature
Genetics:
a. Figure 2b falsely showed the
transduction of bone marrow-derived
dendritic cells infected with pLL3.7 Bim
by flow cytometry, and knockdown of
Bim expression by Western blot
b. Figure 2d falsely showed the
efficiency of pLL3.7 CD8 lentiviral
infection in HSCs by flow cytometry for
GFP expression (left panel), and falsely
showed stable gene expression in
progeny by flow cytometry for GFP
expression in spleen cells from
chimeras derived from infected HSCs
(right panel)
c. Figure 2e falsely showed the
reduction of CD8+ T cells in spleen cells
from chimeras derived from pLL3.7 CD8
infected HSCs (right panel) and controls
(left panel).
4. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
falsified figures in grant applications
submitted to the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), a presentation in 2003,
and Figure 6A, Immunity 19:243–255
(2003), by falsely claiming that the
image in the figure represented an
immunoprecipitation assay for Ras-GTP
and a Western blot for total Ras protein,
when it actually represented a Western
blot for Bcl–2 and b-actin in T cells,
previously published as Figure 5C, J.
Immunol., 168:597–603 (2002).
Dr. Van Parijs also admitted to
falsification or fabrication of data in
multiple submitted manuscripts, grant
applications submitted to NIH, and
presentations as follows.
5. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations
and submitted manuscripts in 2004, he
falsely claimed that the bifunctional
lentiviral vectors, U6–shRNA–rat
insulin promoter (RIP)-Myc had been
made, when they had not, and that
transgenic mice carrying these lentiviral
vectors with shRNA silencing Bim or
Pten proteins in pancreatic cells showed
accelerated tumorigenesis and death.
6. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations
in 2003 and 2004 and in grant
application R21 DK69277–01 submitted
to NIH in 2003, he falsely claimed that
the number of CD8+ T cells and the
incidence of diabetes was reduced by
silencing CD8 expression with the
pLL3.7 CD8 lentivirus in non-obese
diabetic (NOD) transgenic mice, when
the NOD transgenic mice data did not
exist.
7. While at MIT, Dr. Luk Van Parijs
admitted that in multiple presentations,
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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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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20857. To speak to a staff member, please 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.
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/
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://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 2009 notice reflect the 3.8 percent
price increase between calendar years 2007 and 2008. 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
2009 guidelines are roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for
calendar year 2008 which the Census Bureau expects to publish in final
form in August 2009.) The guideline figures shown represent annual
income.
2009 Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of
Columbia
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Poverty
Persons in family guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.......................................................... $10,830
2.......................................................... 14,570
3.......................................................... 18,310
4.......................................................... 22,050
5.......................................................... 25,790
6.......................................................... 29,530
7.......................................................... 33,270
8.......................................................... 37,010
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families with more than 8 persons, add $3,740 for each additional
person.
2009 Poverty Guidelines for Alaska
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Poverty
Persons in family guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.......................................................... $13,530
2.......................................................... 18,210
3.......................................................... 22,890
4.......................................................... 27,570
5.......................................................... 32,250
6.......................................................... 36,930
7.......................................................... 41,610
8.......................................................... 46,290
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,680 for each additional
person.
2009 Poverty Guidelines for Hawaii
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Poverty
Persons in family guideline
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.......................................................... $12,460
2.......................................................... 16,760
3.......................................................... 21,060
4.......................................................... 25,360
5.......................................................... 29,660
6.......................................................... 33,960
7.......................................................... 38,260
8.......................................................... 42,560
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For families with more than 8 persons, add $4,300 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; that organization has the responsibility for
making decisions about definitions of such terms as ``income'' or
``family'' (to the extent that the definition is not already contained
in legislation or regulations).
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Dated: January 16, 2009.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. E9-1510 Filed 1-22-09; 8:45 am]
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