Sentences with phrase «poverty limit»

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.

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.

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.

Cost - sharing - reduction payments are made to insurers to offset some of their costs for providing discount insurance plans to Americans who earn up to 200 % of the federal poverty limit.

Just 4 percent of employed outer - borough residents (about 118,000) commute to jobs in Manhattan by vehicle, and only 2 percent of those who do (about 5,000) are considered to be poor, or living under the federal poverty limit, according to the analysis published Tuesday by the Community Service Society of New York.

Families earning up to 130 percent of the federal poverty limit ($ 29,055 for a family of four) would get the full amount of state aid per child.

Families earning up to 185 percent of the poverty limit ($ 41,348 for a family of four) would get 75 percent of the state aid.

Previously, Senate Republicans had opposed a push to increase the income limits to 300 percent of the federal poverty limit — which would match the limits for families in the separate Milwaukee and Racine voucher programs.

Also known as exchanges, these marketplaces are intended to be a portal to affordable health insurance for families earning between 100 - 400 percent of the federal poverty limit.

Each year, the government determines subsidies for individuals and families based on changes in the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL), and the price of the second - cheapest «silver» plan in your area.

While the ACA has helped numerous families with lower incomes and pre-existing conditions, it has created some adverse effects for individuals who earn more than 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL)-- where the subsidies drop off — and those who live in certain states.

Pre-existing health conditions are covered but you must meet a certain income level based on the federal poverty limit.