2009 Poverty Guidelines Extended Again - to at least May 31, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
- Organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Link: http://aspe.hhs.gov
- Source: Minnesota > ProJusticeMN.org
Congress has taken action to keep the 2009 poverty guidelines in effect until at least May 31, 2010.
Congressional actions on this matter have been in response to a decrease in the annual average Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) for 2009, projected during 2009 and announced on January 15, 2010 (see http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_01152010.pdf, Table 1A). In the absence of legislative change, this decrease — the first since the poverty guidelines began to be issued in 1965 — would have required HHS to issue 2010 poverty guidelines that were lower than the 2009 poverty guidelines; that would have led to the “reduction in eligibility” referred to in the Congressional explanatory language quoted below. Congress took several actions on this matter:
