95-30642. Poverty Threshold

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 242 (Monday, December 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65090-65091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30642]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Poverty Threshold

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hereby giving 
notice of the weighted average poverty threshold in 1994 for one person 
(unrelated individual) as established by the Bureau of the Census.

DATES: The 1994 poverty threshold is for consideration effective 
October 5, 1995, 

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the date on which it was established by the Bureau of the Census.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Paul Trowbridge, Consultant, Regulations Staff, Compensation and 
Pension Service, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of 
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 
273-7210.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA published a final regulation amendment 38 
CFR 4.16(a) in the Federal Register on August 3, 1990, pages 31579-80. 
The amendment provided that marginal employment generally shall be 
deemed to exist when a veteran's earned annual income does not exceed 
the amount established by the Bureau of the Census as the poverty 
threshold for one person. VA noted that the weighted average poverty 
threshold in 1988 for one person (unrelated individual) as established 
by the Bureau of Census was $6.024 and stated we would publish 
subsequent poverty threshold figures as notices in Federal Register.
    The Bureau of the Census recently published the weighted average 
poverty thresholds for 1994. The threshold for one person (unrelated 
individual) is $7,547.

    Dated: December 8, 1995.
Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 95-30642 Filed 12-15-95; 8:45 am]
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