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phone number listed above at least 10 

business days prior to the meeting. 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01218 Filed 1–16–25; 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 15, 2025 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 general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, visit 

https://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), visit 

https://www.hrsa.gov/get-health-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 Community 

Services Block Grant (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 by Medicaid and a 

number of other Federal programs as a 

criterion for some or all eligibility 

determinations. 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 applicable percentage 

change in the Consumer Price Index for 

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The 

guidelines in this 2025 notice reflect the 

2.9 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2023 and 2024. After 

updating for inflation, the guidelines are 

rounded and standardized to establish 

the same interval between each family 

size. In rare circumstances, rounding 

and standardizing 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-to-year 

change in inflation is not negative and 

rounding and standardizing 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 2025 guidelines are roughly 

equal to the poverty thresholds for 

calendar year 2024, which the Census 

Bureau expects to publish in final form 

in September 2025. 

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. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $15,650 

2 ............................................ 21,150 

3 ............................................ 26,650 

4 ............................................ 32,150 

5 ............................................ 37,650 

6 ............................................ 43,150 

7 ............................................ 48,650 

8 ............................................ 54,150 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $5,500 for each 

additional person. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $19,550 

2 ............................................ 26,430 

3 ............................................ 33,310 

4 ............................................ 40,190 

5 ............................................ 47,070 

6 ............................................ 53,950 

7 ............................................ 60,830 

8 ............................................ 67,710 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $6,880 for each 

additional person. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $17,990 

2 ............................................ 24,320 

3 ............................................ 30,650 

4 ............................................ 36,980 

5 ............................................ 43,310 

6 ............................................ 49,640 

7 ............................................ 55,970 

8 ............................................ 62,300 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $6,330 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 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. 

Xavier Becerra, 

Secretary, Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of 

Closed Meetings 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Cardiovascular 

and Respiratory Sciences Integrated 

Review Group Integrative Myocardial 

Physiology/Pathophysiology B Study 

Section. 

Date: February 12–13, 2025. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive 

,Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Kirk E. Dineley, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center 

for Scientific Review, National Institutes 

of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 

806E, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 867– 

5309, dineleyke@csr.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Bioengineering 

Sciences & Technologies Integrated 

Review Group Drug and Biologic 

Therapeutic Delivery Study Section. 

Date: February 18–19, 2025. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Janice Duy, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, 

MD 20892, 301–594–3139, janice.duy@

nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Oncology 1- 

Basic Translational Integrated Review 

Group Cancer Genetics Study Section. 

Date: February 18–19, 2025. 

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications.. 

Address: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Juraj Bies, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Center for 

Scientific Review, National Institutes of 

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 

4158, MSC 7806, Bethesda, MD 20892, 

301 435 1256, biesj@mail.nih.gov.. 

Name of Committee: Biobehavioral 

and Behavioral Processes Integrated 

Review Group; Biobehavioral 

Regulation, Learning and Ethology 

Study Section. 

Date: February 18–19, 2025. 

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: National Institutes of Health, 

Rockledge II, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Sara Louise Hargrave, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center 

for Scientific Review, National Institute 

of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 

3170, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 443– 

7193, hargravesl@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Social and 

Community Influences on Health 

Integrated Review Group; Social 

Psychology, Personality and 

Interpersonal Processes Study Section. 

Date: February 18–19, 2025. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: National Institutes of Health 

Rockledge II 6701 Rockledge Drive 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting. 

Contact Person: Joshua J. Matacotta, 

Psy.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center 

for Scientific Review, National Institutes 

of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 827–7498, 

josh.matacotta@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Endocrinology, 

Metabolism, Nutrition and Reproductive 

Sciences Integrated Review Group; Cell 

Signaling and Molecular Endocrinology 

Study Section. 

Date: February 18–19, 2025. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Address: National Institutes of Health 

Rockledge II 6701 Rockledge Drive 

Bethesda, MD 20892. 

Meeting Format: Virtual Meeting 

Contact Person: Latha Malaiyandi, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Center 

for Scientific Review, National Institutes 

of Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 

812Q, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435– 

1999, malaiyandilm@csr.nih.gov. 

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