Sentences with phrase «on federal poverty line»

While most agencies rely on the federal poverty line, it is not as precise as income limits published by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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If you have a federal student loan, your monthly repayments may depend on your discretionary income, which is defined as the amount by which your adjusted gross income exceeds the poverty line.

Not only are its people more polarized than ever over Puerto Rico's status question — whether to become a sovereign nation, become a state of the U.S. or stay as it is; it is the most impoverished North American territory, with an external debt of over $ 7 billion, an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, 65 per cent of its people on federal food stamps and 38 per cent who have an income below the poverty line.

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

Though families of scholarship recipients could earn up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line, NEO gave priority based on financial need.

Data based on the poverty line — the income level at which people are considered to be poor — are used to determine eligibility for many federal - aid programs, including Title I and the school - lunch program.

Assume that the federal government makes a contribution of these full amounts annually to the CESA of a child in a family at or below the poverty line based on the child's age ($ 12,000 for an infant or toddler, and $ 9,000 for a three - or four - year - old).

According to Kate Baker, the president of NEO, the reimbursement model has been «a significant burden» for many families.25 Since NEO prioritizes based on need, 98 percent of homeschooling scholarship families in the first year of the program had a total household income that would have qualified them for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (185 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 43,568 for a family of four in 2012 - 13), including 77 percent who would have qualified for a «free lunch» (130 percent of the federal poverty line, or $ 30,615 for a family of four in 2012 - 13).26

Sounds wonderful but then the senators threaten to take away all federal money to schools with children at or below the poverty line unless they adopt the senate's edicts on education.

Also, Wisconsin's Joint Finance Committee voted to raise the income eligibility cap on the Wisconsin Parental Choice program from 185 % to 220 % of the federal poverty line, and to expand statewide independent charter school authorizers to include the Office of Educational Opportunity, any UW Chancellor, and any technical college district board.

You can also qualify based on your income you are working full - time or your monthly income does not exceed the larger of A) The federal minimum wage rate or B) 150 % of the poverty line income for your family size and state.

Through IBR, any borrower can cap payments on his loans at 10 percent of a portion of his income, which is calculated by deducting 150 percent of the poverty line for his household size ($ 17,655 for a single person without dependents) from the adjusted gross income stated on his federal tax return.

The calculation is based on your discretionary income, or whatever you earn above 150 % of the federal poverty line ($ 17,505 for a single person).

Just 40,000 borrowers are enrolled in the «Pay As You Earn» program, which allows borrowers to pay 10 percent of whatever they make above the federal poverty line, and then have the balance of their debt forgiven after 10 or 20 years depending on whether they work in the public or private sector.

Experimental manipulations of income among families, such as conditional cash transfer or welfare - to - work programs are important approaches to study the effect of income on child development, as such programs often increase total income for families at or below the federal poverty line.