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detailed agenda and meeting registration 

link will be available on the NACCD 

meeting website https://www.phe.gov/ 

Preparedness/legal/boards/naccd/ 

Pages/default.aspx. 

ADDRESSES: Members of the public may 

attend the meeting via a toll-free phone 

number or Zoom teleconference, which 

requires pre-registration. The meeting 

link to pre-register will be posted on 

https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/ 

legal/boards/naccd/Pages/default.aspx. 

Members of the public may provide 

written comments or submit questions 

for consideration by the NACCD at any 

time via email to NACCD@hhs.gov. 

Members of the public are also 

encouraged to provide comments after 

the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zhoowan Jackson, NACCD Designated 

Federal Officer, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Preparedness and 

Response (ASPR), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS), 

Washington, DC; 202–205–4217, 

NACCD@hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

NACCD invites those who are involved 

in or represent a relevant industry, 

academia, health profession, health care 

consumer organization, or state, Tribal, 

territorial or local government to request 

up to four minutes to address the 

committee in person via Zoom. Requests 

to provide remarks to the NACCD 

during the public meeting must be sent 

to NACCD@hhs.gov at least 15 days 

prior to the meeting along with a brief 

description of the topic. We would 

specifically like to request inputs from 

the public on challenges, opportunities, 

and strategic priorities for national 

public health and medical 

preparedness, response and recovery 

specific to the needs of children and 

their families in disasters. Presenters 

who are selected for the public meeting 

will have audio only for up to four 

minutes during the meeting. Slides, 

documents, and other presentation 

material sent along with the request to 

speak will be provided to the committee 

members separately. Please indicate 

additionally whether the presenter will 

be willing to take questions from the 

committee members (at their discretion) 

immediately following their 

presentation (for up to four additional 

minutes). 

Dawn O’Connell, 

Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and 

Response. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01161 Filed 1–20–22; 8:45 am] 

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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: January 12, 2022 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.3, Humphrey 

Building, Department of Health and 

Human Services, Washington, DC 

20201—telephone: (202) 795–7309—or 

visit http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

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. You also may visit https://

www.uscis.gov/i-864. 

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 Health Resources and 

Services Administration Information 

Center at 1–800–638–0742. You also 

may visit https://www.hrsa.gov/gethealth-care/affordable/hill-burton/ 

index.html. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty, visit the Poverty 

section of the Census Bureau’s website 

at https://www.census.gov/topics/ 

income-poverty/poverty.html or contact 

the Census Bureau’s Customer Service 

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

visit https://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 Medicaid 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 2022 notice reflect the 

4.7 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2020 and 2021. After this 

inflation adjustment, the guidelines are 

rounded and adjusted to standardize the 

differences between family sizes. In rare 

circumstances, the rounding and 

standardizing adjustments in the 

formula result in small decreases in the 

poverty guidelines for some household 

sizes even when the inflation factor is 

not negative. In cases where the year-toyear change in inflation is not negative 

and the rounding and standardizing 

adjustments in the formula result in 

reductions to the guidelines from the 

previous year for some household sizes, 

the guidelines for the affected 

household sizes are fixed at the prior 

year’s guidelines. As in prior years, 

these 2022 guidelines are roughly equal 

to the poverty thresholds for calendar 

year 2021, which the Census Bureau 

expects to publish in final form in 

September 2022. 

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 Supplemental Poverty Measure 

(SPM). 

The following guideline figures 

represent annual income. 


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2022 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................. $13,590 

2 .................................................. 18,310 

3 .................................................. 23,030 

4 .................................................. 27,750 

5 .................................................. 32,470 

6 .................................................. 37,190 

7 .................................................. 41,910 

8 .................................................. 46,630 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $4,720 for each 

additional person. 

2022 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................. $16,990 

2 .................................................. 22,890 

3 .................................................. 28,790 

4 .................................................. 34,690 

5 .................................................. 40,590 

6 .................................................. 46,490 

7 .................................................. 52,390 

8 .................................................. 58,290 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $5,900 for each 

additional person. 

2022 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 .................................................. $15,630 

2 .................................................. 21,060 

3 .................................................. 26,490 

4 .................................................. 31,920 

5 .................................................. 37,350 

6 .................................................. 42,780 

7 .................................................. 48,210 

8 .................................................. 53,640 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $5,430 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.) 

This notice does not provide 

definitions of such terms as ‘‘income’’ or 

‘‘family’’ as there is considerable 

variation of these terms among programs 

that use the poverty guidelines. The 

legislation or regulations governing each 

program define these terms and 

determine how the program applies the 

poverty guidelines. In cases where 

legislation or regulations do not 

establish these definitions, the entity 

that administers or funds the program is 

responsible to define such terms as 

‘‘income’’ and ‘‘family.’’ Therefore, 

questions such as net or gross income, 

counted or excluded income, or 

household size should be directed to the 

entity that administers or funds the 

program. 

Dated: January 18, 2022. 

Xavier Becerra, 

Secretary, Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Meeting of the National Vaccine 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Office of Infectious Disease and 

HIV/AIDS Policy, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Health, Office of the 

Secretary, Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice 

that the National Vaccine Advisory 

Committee (NVAC) will hold a virtual 

meeting. The meeting will be open to 

the public and public comment will be 

heard during the meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

February 10–11, 2022. The confirmed 

meeting times and agenda will be 

posted on the NVAC website at http:// 

www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/meetings/ 

index.html as soon as they become 

available. 

ADDRESSES: Instructions regarding 

attending this meeting will be posted 

online at: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/ 

nvac/meetings/index.html at least one 

week prior to the meeting. Preregistration is required for those who 

wish to attend the meeting or participate 

in public comment. Please register at 

http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/ 

meetings/index.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann 

Aikin, Acting Designated Federal 

Officer, at the Office of Infectious 

Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Mary E. Switzer Building, 

Room L618, 330 C Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20024. Email: nvac@

hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 2101 of the Public Health 

Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa–1), the 

Secretary of HHS was mandated to 

establish the National Vaccine Program 

to achieve optimal prevention of human 

infectious diseases through 

immunization and to achieve optimal 

prevention against adverse reactions to 

vaccines. The NVAC was established to 

provide advice and make 

recommendations to the Director of the 

National Vaccine Program on matters 

related to the Program’s responsibilities. 

The Assistant Secretary for Health 

serves as Director of the National 

Vaccine Program. 

The NVAC celebrates 35 years and 

will kick off the meeting reflecting on 

accomplishments and outling 


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