2025 Federal Poverty Guidelines Released

Federal Poverty Level (FPL) guidelines are issued each year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) based on information gathered by the Census Bureau. The bureau uses that data to calculate the total cost of essential resources used by an average person in a year. FPLs are used to determine eligibility for certain programs and benefits, including savings on Marketplace health insurance and Medicaid and CHIP coverage. The 2025 guidelines establish $32,150 as the FPL for a family of four, a 3% increase from the previous FPL. View the full HHS chart.

The post 2025 Federal Poverty Guidelines Released appeared first on Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health.

Recommend0 recommendationsPublished in My Healthy Pennsylvania, Rural Health PA

Related Articles

Millions of Latinos at Risk for Losing Medicaid, CHIP Coverage in 2024 

The time is now to secure medical insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).  After three years of automatic renewal because of the COVID-19 pandemic, states went back to screening for eligibility in early 2023.  As a result, an estimated 15 million people, including 4.6 million Latinos, could lose their medical coverage …
The post Millions of Latinos at Risk for Losing Medicaid, CHIP Coverage in 2024  appeared first on Salud America.

5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death

The U.S. has a violent child death problem. Developing strategies to prevent violent child deaths death from firearms and traffic crashes is a demanding task that requires consideration of numerous upstream, interrelated, and tangential issues. To help safety advocates develop strategies to prevent violent child death, we compiled five frameworks to help: Understand and explain …
The post 5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death appeared first on Salud America.

9 Critical Questions on Medicaid and the Latino Healthcare Crisis

Latinos are uninsured more than two times the rate of their white peers. Given that Latinos are projected to grow to 29% of the population by 2050, this lack of healthcare coverage, including Medicaid, will continue to endanger the health of many more individuals, families, and the healthcare system. In honor of Minority Health Month, …
The post 9 Critical Questions on Medicaid and the Latino Healthcare Crisis appeared first on Salud America.