Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published in the Federal Register its annual update to the HHS poverty guidelines.

These guidelines are used as an eligibility criterion for many Federal programs that HHS administers.

For more information regarding the 2009
poverty guideline please visit one of the following links.

The 2009 poverty guidelines are available on the HHS website at:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml
< http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/08poverty.shtml>;

A copy of the Federal Register Notice is available today at:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-1510.htm