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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 19 / Monday, February 1, 2021 / Notices 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
20201telephone: 202 7957309or 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 I864, Affidavit of Support, contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at 1800375
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 18006380742. 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 Bureaus website at https www.census.gov/topics/
income-poverty/poverty.html or contact the Census Bureaus Customer Service Center at 18009238282 toll-free or visit https ask.census.gov for further information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background Section 6732 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act OBRA of 1981 42
U.S.C. 99022 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 CPIU.
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 CPIU. The guidelines in this 2021 notice reflect the 1.2 percent price increase between calendar years 2019 and 2020. After this inflation adjustment, the guidelines are rounded and adjusted to standardize the
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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 years guidelines. As in prior years, these 2021 guidelines are roughly equal to the poverty thresholds for calendar year 2020 which the Census Bureau expects to publish in final form in September 2021.
The poverty guidelines continue to be derived from the Census Bureaus current official poverty thresholds; they are not derived from the Census Bureaus Supplemental Poverty Measure SPM.
The following guideline figures represent annual income.

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE
48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Persons in family/household 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
8

Poverty guideline $12,880
17,420
21,960
26,500
31,040
35,580
40,120
44,660

For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $4,540 for each additional person.

2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
ALASKA
Persons in family/household 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
8

Poverty guideline $16,090
21,770
27,450
33,130
38,810
44,490
50,170
55,850

For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $5,680 for each additional person.

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2021 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR
HAWAII
Persons in family/household 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
8

Poverty guideline $14,820
20,040
25,260
30,480
35,700
40,920
46,140
51,360

For families/households with more than 8 persons, add $5,220 for each additional person.
Separate poverty guideline figures for Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of Economic Opportunity administrative practice beginning in the 19661970
period. Note that the Census Bureau poverty thresholdsthe version of the poverty measure used for statistical purposeshave 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. 99022.
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
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