Your plan may be for three years if your income is less than
the state median income for your family size, and you filed Chapter 13, not chapter 7.
Not exact matches
And Leila Bozorg, chief of staff at HPD, said infill units
for tenants earning less than 60 percent of the federally set area
median income — roughly $ 46,600
for a
family of three — could qualify
for the
state's 420c tax credit.
Currently,
families with
income near the NY
state median ($ 60,000) qualify
for approximately $ 2,500 in
state and federal grants, well below typical tuition charges around $ 6,400
for four - year and $ 4,400
for community colleges in New York.
The law places no limits on recipients» household
incomes (i.e., it's not «means - tested»
for low -
income families), and in fact the average adjusted gross
income of recipient
families was $ 51,923, slightly higher than the
state's 2012
median income.
If your
income is above the
median income for the
family your size of your household in your
state, you may have to file a chapter 13 bankruptcy.
It takes the size of your
family and the
median income for your
state into consideration.
If having a quality education isn't convincing enough, the College Board
states that the
median family income in 2008
for those with a bachelor's degree or more was $ 101,099, compared to $ 49,414
for those with just a high school diploma.
If you file Chapter 13 bankruptcy with
income that is below the
median for a
family of your size in your
state, your Chapter 13 payment plan will be
for three years.
The
State Median Family Income by
Family Size
for bankruptcy gets updated from time to time.
Simply put,
families and individuals who are at or below the
state's
median income for the same sized
family are eligible to file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
To qualify to file a Chapter 7, you normally have to be able to pass a Means Test devised by federal law, or you have to be at or below the
median income for a
family your size in the
state in which you live and are filing.
The legal test
for who may file Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is a complicated two - part test that compares your
income to the
median income for a similar
family in your
state, then compares it to the amount of debt you have.
As noted earlier, if the Chapter 13 debtor's
income is greater than the
state median income for the debtor's respective
family size, the plan proposed must be
for 5 years.
If your household
income for a
family your size is less than the
median income for the
state, you will generally qualify to file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
* Based on the average cost of care
for one child in relation to the
state median family income among households with children
For instance, some
states such as New Jersey, New York and Louisiana have high insurance costs, especially when measured against
median family income, yet their uninsured motorist rates were 12 percent or less at the time of the study.
Median income for a
family is approximately $ 59,000 and with the low cost of living, that money goes significantly farther than it might elsewhere in the
state.
Despite evidence of the positive impact of high - quality early childhood education
for all children, it remains out of reach
for most low - and moderate -
income families.15 The average price of center - based care in the United
States accounts
for nearly 30 percent of the
median family income, and only 10 percent of child care programs are considered high quality.16 Publicly funded programs — such as Head Start, Early Head Start, child care, and
state pre-K programs — are primarily targeted at low -
income families, but limited funding
for these programs severely hinders access.17 This lack of access to high - quality early childhood education perpetuates the achievement gap, evidenced by the fact that only 48 percent of low -
income children are ready
for kindergarten, compared with 75 percent of moderate - or high -
income children.18
To illustrate this point, we looked at the data on a
state - by -
state basis; specifically, we compared the
state median family income among households with children (according to the Kids Count Data Center) to the going rates
for nannies and day care.
For single parents, South Dakota is one of the worst
states to raise a
family because the
median household
income of $ 50,957 is below the national
median.
Methodology: GOBankingRates surveyed all 50
states, analyzing eight data points that served as determining factors in the ranking: (1)
median household
income, sourced from the Census Bureau in 2015 dollars; (2)
median home listing price as of June 2017, sourced from Zillow; (3) food spending, using the grocery index sourced from Missouri Economic Research and Information Center and multiplying it against the average amount spent on food from the BLS consumer spending survey from July 2015 - July 2016; (4) employee health insurance premium contribution, sourced from the Commonwealth Fund; (5) annual child care costs
for an infant and a 4 - year - old, sourced from Child Care Aware of America; (6) whether the
state offers paid time - off
for family leave; (7) whether the
state has expanded the earned -
income Tax Credit at the
state level; (8) whether the
state expanded Medicaid coverage as part of the Affordable Care Act.
What makes Delaware one of the best places to raise a
family is the
state's high
median household
income and support systems
for low -
income families, which include Medicaid expansion and an earned -
income tax credit (though at a lower rate than other
states).
However, Arkansas isn't one of the best
states to raise a
family for single parents because the
median household
income of $ 41,371 is the second - lowest in the nation.
Connecticut is one of the better
states for single parents to raise a
family thanks to its high
median household
income of $ 70,331.