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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 Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) poverty 

guidelines to account for last calendar 

year’s increase in prices as measured by 

the Consumer Price Index. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 24, 2013, 

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, 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. For information about 

poverty figures for immigration forms, 

the Hill-Burton Uncompensated 

Services Program, and the number of 

people in poverty, use the specific 

telephone numbers and addresses given 

below. 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, contact 

Kendall Swenson, 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 http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/ 

index.cfm. 

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 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, 

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Resources and Services Administration, 

HHS, Room 10–105, Parklawn Building, 

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 

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 

http://www.hrsa.gov/gethealthcare/ 

affordable/hillburton/. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty, visit the Poverty 

section of the Census Bureau’s web site 

at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ 

poverty/poverty.html or contact the 

Census Bureau’s Customer Service 

Center at 1–800–923–8282 (toll-free) or 

visit http://ask.census.gov for further 

information. 

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 the poverty 

guidelines at least annually, adjusting 

them on the basis of the Consumer Price 

Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). 

The poverty guidelines are used as an 

eligibility criterion by the Community 

Services Block Grant program and 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 2013 notice reflect the 

2.1 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2011 and 2012. 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 2013 guidelines are roughly equal 

to the poverty thresholds for calendar 

year 2012 which the Census Bureau 

expects to publish in final form in 

September 2013.) 

The poverty guidelines continue to be 

derived from the Census Bureau’s 

current official poverty thresholds; they 

are not derived from the Census 

Bureau’s new Supplemental Poverty 

Measure (SPM). 

The following guideline figures 

represent annual income. 

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $11,490 

2 ............................................ 15,510 

3 ............................................ 19,530 

4 ............................................ 23,550 

5 ............................................ 27,570 

6 ............................................ 31,590 

7 ............................................ 35,610 

8 ............................................ 39,630 

For families/households with more than 8 

persons, add $4,020 for each additional 

person. 

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $14,350 

2 ............................................ 19,380 

3 ............................................ 24,410 

4 ............................................ 29,440 

5 ............................................ 34,470 

6 ............................................ 39,500 

7 ............................................ 44,530 

8 ............................................ 49,560 

For families/households with more than 8 

persons, add $5,030 for each additional 

person. 

2013 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $13,230 

2 ............................................ 17,850 

3 ............................................ 22,470 

4 ............................................ 27,090 

5 ............................................ 31,710 

6 ............................................ 36,330 

7 ............................................ 40,950 

8 ............................................ 45,570 

For families/households with more than 8 

persons, add $4,620 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 sometimes have 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 federal 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 also may choose to use 

a percentage multiple of the guidelines. 

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,’’ because there is considerable 

variation in defining these terms among 

the different programs that use the 

guidelines. These variations are 

traceable to the different laws and 

regulations that govern the various 

programs. This means that questions 

such as ‘‘Is income counted before or 

after taxes?’’, ‘‘Should a particular type 

of income be counted?’’, and ‘‘Should a 

particular person be counted as a 

member of the family/household?’’ are 

actually questions about how a specific 

program applies the poverty guidelines. 

All such questions about how a specific 

program applies the guidelines should 

be directed to the entity that administers 

or funds the program, since that entity 

has the responsibility for defining such 

terms as ‘‘income’’ or ‘‘family,’’ to the 

extent that these terms are not already 

defined for the program in legislation or 

regulations. 

Dated: January 18, 2013. 

Kathleen Sebelius, 

Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

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