Medicare pays only about 7 percent of all long - term care costs, and Medicaid, a federal assistance program, requires you to spend down assets to meet federal poverty limits before receiving benefits. (realtormag.realtor.org)
On badconscience's point: yes, I agree that if one wants to make the point that poverty limits freedom, one can do that using the basic notion of «negative liberty» - freedom simply as the ability to act as one wishes (or might wish) without coercive interference by others. (nextleft.org)
Under income - based repayment plans, including IBR, PAYE, and REPAYE, payments are calculated as a percentage of a borrower's discretionary income, which is which is itself calculated by subtracting 150 % of the federal poverty limit from adjusted gross income. (loanlab.co)